In counties in which there are no health officers, and in counties in which, although there are health officers, adequate provision has not, in the opinion of the State Board of Health, been made for the proper notification, investigation and control of notifiable diseases and in localities in which the local health authorities fail to carry out the provision of the health laws of the state and the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health, the State Board of Health may appoint properly qualified sanitary officers to act as local health officers and to prevent the spread of disease in, and from, such localities and to enforce said laws, rules and regulations.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.
Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.
Chapter 3 - Local Health Authorities.
Section 22-3-1 - County Boards of Health - How Constituted.
Section 22-3-2 - County Boards of Health - Duties Generally.
Section 22-3-4 - County Health Officers - Powers.
Section 22-3-5 - County Health Officers - Duties Generally.
Section 22-3-6 - County Health Officers - Salary.
Section 22-3-7 - County Health Officers - Bond.
Section 22-3-8 - County Quarantine Officers.
Section 22-3-9 - Appointment of Sanitary Officers.
Section 22-3-10 - Tax to Establish and Maintain County Health Officer and Health Department.
Section 22-3-11 - Appropriations by Municipalities for Public Health Work.
Section 22-3-12 - Payment of Health Department Claims, etc., Out of County or Municipal Budgets.