As Amended
SEC. 41-3-5. Executive officer.
The board shall proceed to elect an executive officer who shall be a physician having earned a graduate degree in public health or health care administration or, in the alternative, be a physician who in the opinion of the board is fitted and equipped to execute the duties incumbent upon him by law. The executive officer shall not engage in the private practice of medicine. His term of office shall be six (6) years. The executive officer shall be vested with all the authority of the board when it is not in session, and he shall be subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State Board of Health. The executive officer shall be the State Health Officer with such authority and responsibility as is prescribed by law. The executive officer may be removed for cause by majority vote of the members of the board.
SOURCES: Codes, 1892, § 2269; Laws, 1906, § 2484; Hemingway's 1917, § 4833; Laws, 1930, § 4870; Laws, 1942, § 7026; Laws, 1924, ch. 313; Laws, 1944, ch. 270; Laws, 1948, ch. 395, § 1; Laws, 1958, ch. 360; Laws, 1966, ch. 445, § 19; Laws, 1977, ch. 404; Laws, 1978, ch. 520, § 10; Laws, 1980, ch. 465, § 3; reenacted and amended, 1982, ch. 494, § 4; reenacted, 1990, ch. 568, § 4; reenacted without change, Laws, 1994, ch. 462, § 4; reenacted, 1995, ch. 363, § 4; reenacted without change, Laws, 2001, ch. 420, § 4, SB 2211, eff from and after June 30, 2001.
PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2001