Section 341. County or part-county health districts; local health districts within; villages in two counties  


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  • 1. Local health districts within  the
      area  of  any  county  or  part-county health district shall continue to
      exist as subdivisions of such health district, and the local  boards  of
      health  shall  continue  to  exist and to retain their powers and duties
      subject to the rulings and regulations of the board  of  health  of  the
      county or part-county health district, and may continue to appoint local
      health officers for such local health districts as provided by law.
        2.  If  a  county  or  part-county  health  district  as heretofore or
      hereafter established by a board  of  supervisors  shall  by  its  terms
      contain  a  portion  of any village which lies partly within said county
      and partly within some other county, said  village,  without  regard  to
      population,  shall  continue its local district organization in the same
      manner as before, in which case the health officer of the village acting
      within the county or part-county health district shall be  a  deputy  of
      the  county  health commissioner with reference to acts performed within
      said county or part-county  health  district.  Provided,  however,  said
      village  may, by resolution of the village board, limit the local health
      district to that portion of the village lying in the county  outside  of
      the   county   or  part-county  health  district,  in  which  event  the
      compensation of the local health officer shall be based upon the  number
      of inhabitants in the reduced village health district, and the residents
      of  that  portion  of the village lying within the county or part-county
      health district shall not be taxed by the village for the maintenance of
      such reduced local health district.
        3. The governing authorities of any  city,  village  or  town  or  the
      governing  authorities  of  the  cities,  villages  or  towns  within  a
      consolidated health district may abolish such  city,  village,  town  or
      consolidated  health  district as a local health district, whereupon all
      the powers and duties of the local board of health of such local  health
      district  shall  devolve  upon  the  board  of  health  of the county or
      part-county health district and all the powers and duties of  the  local
      health  officer  of  such  local  health district shall devolve upon the
      county health commissioner.
        4. The governing authorities of a town or village, the local board  of
      health  of  which  has been abolished pursuant to the provisions of this
      section, when authorized by a proposition submitted and adopted  in  the
      manner  provided  by  law,  may  employ  a public health nurse or public
      health nurses, qualified as provided in the sanitary code, and make  the
      necessary  appropriation  therefor. Such public health nurse, or nurses,
      shall work under the direction of the county health commissioner.
        5. Where the local health district within the area of  any  county  or
      part  county  health  district  is a town in which there are one or more
      incorporated villages and the local board of health  is  a  town  board,
      appropriations  made  by  the  town  board  for  the  purposes stated in
      subdivisions one and four of this section shall be  a  charge  upon  the
      taxable  property  of  that part of the town outside of any incorporated
      village.
        If a proposition is submitted as provided in subdivision four of  this
      section  for  the  employment of public health nurses in a town in which
      there  are  incorporated  villages  which  constitute  a  local   health
      district,  only  such  persons  who are electors and owners of record of
      property in the town outside of incorporated villages shall be  entitled
      to vote upon such a proposition.