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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
Calendar of Events
Mon, May 26, 2025, All Day
Posted to: Select Board
Select Board Meeting -- SCHEDULED
Tue, Jun 3, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
JRMC Cafeteria
Posted to: Select Board
Sat, Jun 7, 2025, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Community Hall
Posted to: Board Of Health
  • Attached File: 2025 Heath Shoe Spraying Event
  • Select Board Meeting -- SCHEDULED
    Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
    JRMC Cafeteria
    Posted to: Select Board
    Thu, Jun 19, 2025, All Day
    Town Offices, Post Office, Library Closed
    Posted to: Select Board
    Wed, Jun 25, 2025, 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
    Jacobs Rd Municipal Center
    Posted to: Assessors
    Independence Day -- HOLIDAY
    Fri, Jul 4, 2025, All Day
    Town Offices, Post Office, Library Closed
    Posted to: Select Board
    Select Board Meeting -- SCHEDULED
    Tue, Jul 8, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
    JRMC Cafeteria
    Posted to: Select Board
    Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
    Posted to: Council on Aging
    Select Board Meeting -- SCHEDULED
    Tue, Jul 22, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
    JRMC Cafeteria
    Posted to: Select Board
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    May 17, 9 am -- 12 noon
    9 am -- 1 pm, Franklin County Tech School