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Clerk 08/26/2004
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the continuation of the board of health; adding new sections to K.C.C. chapter 2.35 and repealing Ordinance 13872, Section 2, Ordinance 13872, Section 3, Ordinance 13872, Section 4, and Ordinance 13257, Section 19, and declaring an emergency.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. RCW 70.05.035, which was effective on January 1, 1996, requires that the county legislative authority establish a local board of health with jurisdiction coextensive with the boundaries of the county. It also provides that the legislative authority may prescribe the membership of and the selection process for the board.
2. To comply with the law and ensure the maximum extent of coordination of public health programs between the county and the cities in the county, the council adopted Ordinance 12098 in December 1995. Ordinance 12098 amended Ordinance 11178, which had been adopted in 1993 and had designated the county legislative authority as the local board of health. Ordinance 12098 created a twenty-two-member, federated King County board of health with countywide jurisdiction and also readopted and ratified existing rules and regulations of the former board of health of the city of Seattle, pending amendment or repeal by the newly created King County board of health.
3. In recognition that further discussions and analysis of the appropriate structure for public health governance would be necessary, the council placed an expiration clause in Ordinance 12098 so that the ordinance would expire on December 31, 1996. Ordinance 12526 extended the expiration date to June 30, 1998. Ordinance 13218 extended the expiration date to June 30, 2000. Ordinance 13218, adopted in June 1998, also reduced the size of the board from twenty-two to thirteen voting members, and repealed Ordinance 11178, Sections 1, 2 and 3. Ordinance 12098, Section 1, Section 2.1 through 5, Section 5 and Section 6 and Ordinance 12526 in its entirety. Ordinan...

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