Sec. 9. (a) The regular employees of the state department may be assigned to the performance of the duties prescribed in this chapter either on a full-time or part-time basis. Additional qualified personnel may be employed as the state department determines is necessary to administer this chapter.

     (b) The state department may enter into a cooperative agreement with the health authorities of a municipal corporation or health district under which assistants, investigators, and employees may be appointed who are necessary and qualified to cooperate with the state department and the federal government in conducting the health work in the municipal corporation or health district, in conformity with the following:

(1) This chapter and rules adopted under this chapter.

(2) The federal Social Security Act and regulations adopted under the federal Social Security Act.

     (c) The state department:

(1) may make allotments from the state department’s money to a municipal corporation or health district; and

(2) shall cause to be deposited in a separate health fund of the municipal corporation or the health district an amount not to exceed an allotment.

     (d) Agreements may be made under which:

(1) at least two (2) municipal corporations or health districts may cooperate with the state department; and

(2) the expenses incurred in conducting health work shall be allocated between or among the municipal corporations and health districts and the state department;

as may be mutually agreed upon. Appointments are subject to the approval of the state department. The state department may pay a proportionate share of the salaries and expenses of assistants, investigators, and employees as may be agreed upon by the state department and the health authorities of a municipal corporation or health district as prescribed in cooperative agreements.

[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-6.5-1-9.]

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.18.