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# O.C.G.A. § 31-3-11. Direction and supervision of staff.

Each employee of a county board of health whose duties include enforcing those environmental health laws of this state or environmental health regulations of that board of health relating to septic tanks or individual sewage management systems shall be subject to the direction and supervision of the district director of environmental health, although the hiring and termination from employment of such employee shall be subject to the director of that county board of health. The employment activities of such employee with regard to environmental health shall be reported to the director of environmental health through the district director of environmental health at least quarterly. The director of environmental health may recommend to that director of that county board of health personnel actions, including but not limited to termination, which the director of environmental health deems appropriate for such employee’s failure or refusal to comply with the direction of the director of environmental health in the carrying out of the environmental health employment duties of such employee. As used in this subsection, the term “director of environmental health” means the director of environmental health of the Department of Public Health.

## History

Code 1933, § 88-211, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 549, § 2; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2009, p. 745, § 2/SB 97; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-1/HB 214; Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 2-35/HB 642; Ga. L. 2024, p. 42, § 1/SB 293, effective July 1, 2024.

## Code Commission Notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2000, “environmental” was substituted for “environment” near the end of the second sentence of subsection (b).

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-1/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “Personnel, equipment, and facilities that were assigned to the State Personnel Administration as of June 30, 2012, shall be transferred to the Department of Administrative Services on the effective date of this Act.” This Act became effective July 1, 2012.

Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-2/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “Appropriations for functions which are transferred by this Act may be transferred as provided in Code Section 45-12-90.”

## Law Reviews

For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).

## Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, deleted former subsection (a), which read: “The county board of health shall appoint as its chief executive officer a director who shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine under Chapter 34 of Title 43 and who otherwise meets the requirements of the rules of the State Personnel Board. The director, subject to the approval of the county board of health, shall designate aides and assistants pursuant to the budget adopted by the county board of health in accordance with Code Section 31-3-14.”; and removed the subsection (b) designation.