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...rom an insurance company licensed to do business in this state, if such a policy is available from such a company. The board of health of a city or general health district shall report the cost of the liability insurance policy and subsequent increases in the cost to the director of health on a form prescribed by the director.

...When it is necessary for an employee of a board of health of a city or general health district to travel outside the district, such employee shall be reimbursed for travel and per diem expenses incidental to such travel. No employee of a board shall be reimbursed for such travel unless prior approval has been granted by the board.

...ovide the necessary medical and nursing service therefor.

...ngs necessary to the transaction of its business. The forms shall be used as the director of health prescribes.

...d by the board until ten days after the service of the report and recommendation as provided in this section. The board may order additional testimony to be taken or permit the introduction of further documentary evidence. No recommendation shall be final until approved by a quorum of the entire board as indicated by an order on its record of proceedings.

...The board of health of a general health district may make such orders and regulations as are necessary for its own government, for the public health, the prevention or restriction of disease, and the prevention, abatement, or suppression of nuisances. Such board may require that no human, animal, or household wastes from sanitary installations within the district be discharged into a storm sewer, open ditch, or...

...When an order of the board of health of a city or general health district made pursuant to section 3709.20 or 3709.21 of the Revised Code is not complied with in whole or in part, the board may petition the court of common pleas for injunctive or other appropriate relief requiring all persons to whom such order of the board is directed to comply with such order. The court of the county in which such offense is allege...

...Any order or regulation for the public health or for the prevention or restriction of disease issued by a board of health of a city or general health district under section 3709.20 or 3709.21 of the Revised Code may apply to only the following persons: (A) Those who have been medically diagnosed with the disease that is the subject of the order or regulation; (B) Those who have come in direct contact with someone...

...Each board of health of a city or general health district shall study and record the prevalence of disease within its district and provide for the prompt diagnosis and control of communicable diseases. The board may also provide for the medical and dental supervision of school children, for the free treatment of cases of venereal diseases, for the inspection of schools, public institutions, jails, workhouses, childre...

...lic funds shall furnish such laboratory service as may be required by any board under terms to be agreed upon. Any contract for the furnishing of laboratory service to a board and any proposal for the establishment of a joint laboratory shall be subject to the approval of the director of health. In the operation of such laboratories standard methods approved by the director shall be used.

...e for the necessary medical and nursing service therefor. The board may provide for the quarantine of such carriers of gonorrhea, syphilis, or chancroid, as the director of health orders to be quarantined. It shall use due diligence in the prevention of such venereal diseases and shall carry out all orders and regulations of the department of health in connection therewith.

...payment for any diagnostic or treatment service provided under this section without their consent.

...Each board of health of a city or general health district shall provide for the free distribution of antitoxin for the treatment of cases of diphtheria and shall establish sufficient distributing stations to render such antitoxin readily available in all parts of the district.

...The health commissioner of a city or general health district may make frequent inspection of all county homes, children's homes, workhouses, jails, or other charitable, benevolent, or correctional institutions in the district, including physical examination of the inmates whenever necessary, and may make laboratory examinations of inmates as requested by any state or county official having jurisdiction over an instit...

...The board of health of a city or general health district may establish detention hospitals for cases of communicable diseases and provide for the support and maintenance thereof. It may collect from persons committed to such hospitals the cost of the care and treatment of such persons while inmates therein. The expenses of such indigent persons as are committed to such hospitals shall be a proper charge against and s...

... will be collected in fees or from any tax levied for the benefit of the district under this chapter or Chapter 5705. of the Revised Code during the fiscal year, shall be certified to the county auditor and by the county auditor submitted to the county budget commission, which may reduce the appropriation to be apportioned among the townships and municipal corporations composing the district in accordance with...

...ection, shall acquire any power to levy taxes in behalf of such legislative authority unless approved by a majority of the electors of the municipality. Every agreement entered into under this section shall provide, either in specific terms or by prescribing a method for determining the amounts, for any payments which are to be made by the legislative authority in consideration of the performance of the agreement. S...

...The board of health of any city or general health district may participate in, receive or give financial and other assistance, and cooperate with other agencies or organizations, either private or governmental, in establishing and operating any federal program enacted prior to or after November 6, 1969, by the congress of the United States.

...A board of county commissioners may give or receive financial or other assistance, cooperate with other agencies or organizations, either private or governmental, or otherwise participate in establishing and operating any health program conducted by a city or general health district.

...f the district health fund because the taxes within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient, the board of health shall certify the fact of such insufficiency to the board of county commissioners of the county in which such district is located. Such board of county commissioners is hereby ordained to be a special taxing authority for the purposes of this section only, and, notwithstanding any other law to ...

...In case of epidemic or threatened epidemic or during the unusual prevalence of a dangerous communicable disease, if the moneys in the district health fund of a general health district are not sufficient, in the judgment of the board of health of the district, to defray the expenses necessary to prevent the spread of such disease, the board shall estimate the amount required for this purpose and apportion it among ...

... company authorized to conduct a surety business in this state as a surety to be held by the board and conditioned on the faithful performance of his duties. The expense or premium of the bond shall be paid by the board and charged to the health fund.

...ons prevent it from receiving adequate tax revenues to help support minimally acceptable public health services. No state health district subsidy funds shall be granted to any board or department that decreases its appropriation for public health services in anticipation of using state funds to provide public health services normally supported by local revenues.

...In general health districts the prosecuting attorney of the county constituting all or a major part of such district shall act as the legal advisor of the board of health. In a proceeding in which the board is a party the prosecuting attorney of the county in which such proceeding is instituted shall act as the legal representative of the board.

...The board of county commissioners or the legislative authority of any city may furnish suitable quarters for any board of health or health department having jurisdiction over all or a major part of such county or city.