§ 2-65. Board of health designated.


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  • (a) The County Council is, and may act as, the County Board of Health.
    (b) When meeting as the Board of Health, the County Council has all the powers delegated to a local board of health under State and County law.
    (c) The County Council, meeting as the Board of Health, may adopt any regulation which a local board of health is authorized to adopt. Before it adopts a regulation, the Board must hold a public hearing after giving reasonable notice, as specified in the Council Rules of Procedure, to each municipality in the County and the public. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 2-66; , § 1.)
    Editor’s note—See County Attorney Opinion dated indicating that the County Council, sitting as a Board of Health, may enforce County law regarding group homes in the eight home-rule municipalities that have not adopted their own law.