Section 353. Deputy county or part-county health commissioners; assistants and employees; appointment  


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  • 1. Local health  officers  who  continue  to
      hold  office  after  the establishment of a county or part-county health
      district, pursuant to the provisions of this article, shall be  deputies
      of the county health commissioner, who may require any such local health
      officer to perform within his jurisdiction any of the duties required of
      local health officers.
        2. The county health commissioner may appoint with the approval of the
      board  of  health such additional deputies, assistant deputies and other
      employees as may be required to fulfill the purposes of this article  in
      the health district and as may be authorized by the board of supervisors
      pursuant  to  the  provisions  of section four hundred one of the county
      law. Such deputies and assistant deputies and other employees shall have
      the qualifications prescribed in the sanitary code.
        3. The county health commissioner may designate in writing  a  deputy,
      qualified  in  accordance  with  the provisions of the sanitary code, to
      whom shall be delegated all the powers and duties of the  county  health
      commissioner  when  such  commissioner  is  unable  to  act by reason of
      absence or disability.