Article 4. Transfer Of Environmental Health And Sanitation Services of California Health And Safety Code >> Division 101. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 4.
Notwithstanding Section 101260, a county board of
supervisors may, with the concurrence of the director, transfer the
total function of providing environmental health and sanitation
services and programs to a comprehensive environmental agency of the
county other than the county health department. The county shall
continue to receive funds appropriated for the purposes of this
article if it complies with all other minimum standards established
by the department and if the environmental health and sanitation
services and programs are maintained at levels of quality and
efficiency equal to or higher than the levels of the services and
programs formerly provided by the county health department.
If a transfer authorized by Section 101275 is made:
(a) Each agency shall employ as the immediate supervisor of the
environmental health and sanitation services a director of
environmental health who is a registered environmental health
specialist and the agency shall employ an adequate number of
registered environmental health specialists to carry on the program
of environmental health and sanitation services.
(b) Wherever, in any statute, regulation, resolution, or order, a
power is granted to, or a duty is imposed upon, a county health
officer or county health department pertaining to environmental
health and sanitation services and programs transferred by the board
of supervisors, these powers and duties shall be delegated by the
local health officer to the director of environmental health, who
shall thereafter administer these powers and duties.
(c) The department shall adopt regulations pertaining to minimum
program and personnel requirements of environmental health and
sanitation services and programs. The department shall periodically
review these programs to determine if minimum requirements are met.
(d) Whenever the board of supervisors determines that the expenses
of its environmental health director in the enforcement of any
statute, order, quarantine, or regulation prescribed by a state
officer or department relating to environmental health and sanitation
are not met by any fees prescribed by the state, the board may adopt
an ordinance or resolution prescribing fees that will pay the
reasonable expenses of the environmental health director incurred in
enforcement. The schedule of fees prescribed by ordinance or
resolution of the board of supervisors shall be applicable in the
area in which the environmental health director enforces any statute,
order, quarantine, rule, or regulation prescribed by a state officer
or department relating to environmental health and sanitation.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 101260, the county board of
supervisors may, with the concurrence of the county officer providing
the services, transfer all or any portion of the function of
providing vector control services to any mosquito abatement and
vector control district formed pursuant to the Mosquito Abatement and
Vector Control District Law, Chapter 1 (commencing with Section
2000) of Division 3, provided that the district's boundaries include
that territory.
(b) A county that transfers vector control services to a district
shall continue to receive funds appropriated for the purposes of this
article if that county complies with all of the other minimum
standards and if the vector control program is maintained at a level
that meets the minimum standards set by the department.