RCW 70.05.051
Local health officer—Qualifications.
The following persons holding licenses as required by RCW 70.05.050 shall be deemed qualified to hold the position of local health officer:
(1) Persons holding the degree of master of public health or its equivalent;
(2) Persons not meeting the requirements of subsection (1) of this section, who upon August 11, 1969 are currently employed in this state as a local health officer and whom the secretary of social and health services recommends in writing to the local board of health as qualified; and
(3) Persons qualified by virtue of completing three years of service as a provisionally qualified officer pursuant to RCW 70.05.053 through 70.05.055.
[ 1979 c 141 § 75; 1969 ex.s. c 114 § 2.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 70.05 - Local Health Departments, Boards, Officers—Regulations.
70.05.030 - Counties—Local board of health—Jurisdiction.
70.05.035 - Home rule charter counties—Local board of health.
70.05.040 - Local board of health—Chair—Administrative officer—Vacancies.
70.05.045 - Administrative officer—Responsibilities.
70.05.050 - Local health officer—Qualifications—Employment of personnel—Salary and expenses.
70.05.051 - Local health officer—Qualifications.
70.05.053 - Provisionally qualified local health officers—Appointment—Term—Requirements.
70.05.060 - Powers and duties of local board of health.
70.05.070 - Local health officer—Powers and duties.
70.05.072 - Local health officer—Authority to grant waiver from on-site sewage system requirements.
70.05.074 - On-site sewage system permits—Application—Limitation of alternative sewage systems.
70.05.080 - Local health officer—Failure to appoint—Procedure.
70.05.090 - Physicians to report diseases.
70.05.100 - Determination of character of disease.
70.05.110 - Local health officials and physicians to report contagious diseases.
70.05.120 - Violations—Remedies—Penalties.
70.05.150 - Contracts for sale or purchase of health services authorized.
70.05.170 - Child mortality review.
70.05.180 - Infectious disease testing—Good samaritans—Rules.
70.05.190 - On-site sewage program management plans—Authority of certain boards of health.