Board of Health - Responsibilities - Full List
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General
- Determining health needs of community
- Making local regulations and policies, including:
- Private well regulations
- Smoking in private clubs regulations
- Massage regulations
- Local title 5 regulations Septic hauler regulations
- Local storm drain regulations
- Isolation and quarantine regulations
- Hold public hearings
- Define permits and fees
- Enforcement of regulations made under State Sanitary Code and Environmental Code
- Notice of violations and follow-up
- Approvals and inspections
- Handling of complaints, documentation and follow-up
Records, Record Keeping and Reports
- Submit annual report to town
- Maintain numerous records
- Process numerous types of reports of cases and diseases
- Maintain minutes of all meetings
- Maintain written record of all complaints received, (written, verbal, anonymous or named)
- Bill homeowners and business owners for work done, and track payments
Health Care and Disease Control
- Receive reports of disease dangerous to public health, including reports from schools and doctors, include lead poisoning.
- Keep records of these reports. Follow up
- Report cases to DPH
- Prevention of dangerous diseases
- Coordinate availability and disbursement of vaccines
Housing and Dwellings
- Enforce state sanitary code re: standards for fitness for human habitation
- Enforce states lead poisoning prevention regulations
- Inspect and certify public lodging houses, B&B, camps
- Involvement with oil spills
- Respond to complaints re: common housing or rental units
Sanitary Sewage Disposal
- Enforce Title 5 of State Environmental Code
- Examine sites, witness perc tests, issue certificates of compliance, approve plans
- Involvement with all new septic systems, failures, repairs
- Issue Variances
- Handle complaints
- Evaluate potentially troublesome areas in town
- Act to develop prevention programs, such as shared systems.
- Subdivision control