North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 48 - LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT ACCREDITATION
Subchapter B - LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT ACCREDITATION STANDARDS
Section .0600 - DEVELOP POLICIES AND PLANS THAT SUPPORT INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH EFFORTS
Section 48B .0601 - BENCHMARK 14

Universal Citation: 10A NC Admin Code 48B .0601

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024

(a) Benchmark: The local health department shall work with local, state and federal policymakers to enact policies, laws, rules, and ordinances that support individual and community health efforts.

(b) Activities:

(1) The local health department shall disseminate information relative to public health needs to elected and appointed officials.

(2) The local health department shall provide information and recommendations to support the local board of health and the board(s) of county commissioners in setting public health priorities and planning public health programs.

(3) The local health department shall evaluate, with the local board of health, the need for additional rules or ordinances to protect the health of the public.

(4) The local health department shall assist the local board of health in drafting local ordinances and rules as needed and presenting them to elected officials in order to implement or enforce needed local public health prevention and protection activities.

Authority G.S. 130A-34.1;
Temporary Adoption Eff. January 1, 2006;
Eff. October 1, 2006;
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. January 5, 2016.

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