California Health and Safety Code 101185 – For the purposes of this chapter a “local health department” shall be …
For the purposes of this chapter a “local health department” shall be interpreted to mean any one of the following public health administrative organizations:
(a) A local health department serving one or more counties that shall provide services to all cities whose population is less than 50,000 in addition to the unincorporated territory of the county or counties.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 101185
- County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
(b) A county health department that does not serve all of the cities of less than 50,000 population, but that has the provisional approval of the department, in accordance with Section 101225.
(c) The health department of a city of 50,000 or greater population, except that the governing body of the city by resolution may declare its intention to be included under the jurisdiction of the county health department, as provided by existing statutes.
(d) The local health department of any county that had under its jurisdiction on September 19, 1947, a population in excess of 1,000,000, or the local health department of any city and county.
(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1023, Sec. 302.2. Effective September 29, 1996.)