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§ 1803. General powers and duties of state board of health
In carrying out the purposes of this chapter, the board is authorized and directed:
(1) To require such reports, make such inspections and investigations, and prescribe such regulations as it deems necessary;
(2) To provide such methods of administration, appoint personnel and take such other action as may be necessary to comply with the requirements of the federal act and the regulations thereunder;
(3) To procure, in its discretion, the temporary or intermittent services of experts or consultants or organizations thereof, by contract, when such services are to be performed on a part time or fee-for-service basis and do not involve the performance of administrative duties;
(4) To the extent that it considers desirable to effectuate the purposes of this chapter to enter into agreements for the utilization of the facilities and services of other departments, agencies, and institutions, public or private;
(5) To accept on behalf of the state and to deposit with the state treasurer any grant, gift or contribution made to assist in meeting the cost of carrying out the purposes of this chapter, and to expend the same for such purposes;
(6) To do all other things on behalf of the state necessary to obtain full benefits under the federal act as now and hereafter amended. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961.)
