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Chapter 70.05 RCW

LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS, BOARDS, OFFICERS—REGULATIONS

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Sections

HTMLPDF 70.05.010Definitions.
HTMLPDF 70.05.030Counties—Local board of health—Jurisdiction.
HTMLPDF 70.05.035Home rule charter counties—Local board of health.
HTMLPDF 70.05.040Local board of health—Chair—Administrative officer—Vacancies.
HTMLPDF 70.05.045Administrative officer—Responsibilities.
HTMLPDF 70.05.050Local health officer—Qualifications—Employment of personnel—Salary and expenses.
HTMLPDF 70.05.051Local health officer—Qualifications.
HTMLPDF 70.05.053Provisionally qualified local health officers—Appointment—Term—Requirements.
HTMLPDF 70.05.054Provisionally qualified local health officers—In-service public health orientation program.
HTMLPDF 70.05.055Provisionally qualified local health officers—Interview—Evaluation as to qualification as local public health officer.
HTMLPDF 70.05.060Powers and duties of local board of health.
HTMLPDF 70.05.070Local health officer—Powers and duties.
HTMLPDF 70.05.072Local health officer—Authority to grant waiver from on-site sewage system requirements.
HTMLPDF 70.05.074On-site sewage system permits—Application—Limitation of alternative sewage systems.
HTMLPDF 70.05.077Department of health—Training—On-site sewage systems—Application of the waiver authority—Topics—Availability.
HTMLPDF 70.05.080Local health officer—Failure to appoint—Procedure.
HTMLPDF 70.05.090Physicians to report diseases.
HTMLPDF 70.05.100Determination of character of disease.
HTMLPDF 70.05.110Local health officials and physicians to report contagious diseases.
HTMLPDF 70.05.120Violations—Remedies—Penalties.
HTMLPDF 70.05.130Expenses of state, health district, or county in enforcing health laws and rules—Payment by county.
HTMLPDF 70.05.150Contracts for sale or purchase of health services authorized.
HTMLPDF 70.05.160Moratorium on water, sewer hookups, or septic systems—Public hearing—Limitation on length.
HTMLPDF 70.05.170Child fatality review.
HTMLPDF 70.05.180Infectious disease testing—Good samaritans—Rules.
HTMLPDF 70.05.190On-site sewage program management plans—Authority of certain boards of health.
HTMLPDF 70.05.200On-site sewage system self-inspection.
HTMLPDF 70.05.210Fatality review teams.

Notes:

Health districts: Chapter 70.46 RCW.
State board of health: Chapter 43.20 RCW.