Sec. 7. (a) Local departments of health, including the department of a health and hospital corporation, are eligible to receive state funds appropriated by the general assembly only if, after allocation by the state agency and before receipt of those state funds, a local appropriation for vector control is made by the appropriate local health agency.

     (b) The state department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to govern the application for and the distribution of any state funds appropriated for this purpose, according to the need and proper utilization.

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-7.3-8.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24.

Terms Used In Indiana Code 16-41-33-7

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • vector: means an arthropod or a feral animal responsible for the transmission of pathogens from a host to another animal or human. See Indiana Code 16-41-33-2