§ 34-33. Duties.

(a)

Supervision/authority. The county board of health shall have supervision over all matters relating to health and sanitation within the county, with authority to declare and enforce quarantine therein, subject to the provisions of law.

(b)

Geographic limits of power. All the power, authority, duties, and responsibilities of the county board of health shall be exercised and discharged throughout the entire area of the county, both inside and outside of the corporate limits of municipalities located in whole or in part therein.

(c)

County attorney assistance. The county attorney or law department shall furnish whatever professional legal assistance may be needed by the county board of health or other authority for the enforcement of these powers of the board of health by any of the means authorized by law.

(d)

Authority to adopt rules. The governing authority of the county shall be authorized to adopt a system of rules, regulations, articles and orders that may be based on recommendations by the county board of health. Such rules, regulations, articles and orders, when adopted, shall be recorded on the minutes of the governing authority of the county, and a certified copy thereof shall be furnished to the department.

(e)

Certificate of attestation. The certificate of attestation of the chairman or any other member of the board of health shall give sufficient validity or authenticity to any copy or transcript of any record, document, paper, or file or other matter or thing in the office of the chairman or other member of pertaining thereto to admit the same in evidence.

(f)

Board of health authority/misdemeanor. The board of health shall not have authority to provide the rules, regulations, articles or orders to carry out its powers and duties but shall use rules, regulations, and orders adopted by the governing authority of the county and spread upon its minutes. The violation of any such rule, regulation, article or order is declared to be a nuisance, per se, and shall be subject to be abated as a nuisance, or enjoined as such. The violation of any such rules, regulations, articles or orders is declared to be a misdemeanor, and any person, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished as for a misdemeanor.

(Res. No. 05-0616, 5-18-05)

State law reference

Similar provisions, O.C.G.A. § 31-3-2.1(c); punishment for misdemeanors, O.C.G.A. § 17-10-3.