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RESOLUTION NO.: 1998 -19 <br />NORTH CAROLINA RESOLUTION ASSIGNING ADDITIONAL POWERS, DUTIES <br />AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE <br />CABARRUS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY OF CABARRUS COUNTY, <br />MODIFYING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE BOARD OF THE AUTHORITY <br />AND DISSOLVING THE CABARRUS COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />WHEREAS, by resolution dated the 6th day of May, 1997 (the <br />"Authorizing Resolution "), the Cabarrus County Board of <br />Commissioners: (a) established a hospital authority (the <br />"Authority ") under the provisions of N.C.G.S. 131E --15; (b) vested <br />in the Authority certain powers, duties and responsibilities <br />formerly held by the Cabarrus County Health Department; and (c) <br />named the Authority the Public Health Authority of Cabarrus County; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, subsequent to the adoption of the Authorizing <br />Resolution, Cabarrus County continued to operate a public health <br />department governed by the Cabarrus County Board of Health, the <br />only powers, duties and responsibilities of which were those <br />statutory powers, duties and responsibilities specifically required <br />to be exercised by a local Board of Health; and <br />WHEREAS, as authorized by the 1997 Session of the General <br />Assembly, effective January 1, 1998, subject to the approval of the <br />State Health Director, Cabarrus County may, by resolution, assign <br />to the Authority those powers, duties and responsibilities to <br />provide public health services previously retained by the Board of <br />Health; and <br />WHEREAS, Cabarrus County now desires to transfer the powers, <br />duties and responsibilities previously retained by the Board of <br />Health to the Authority and to dissolve the Board of Health. <br />BE IT, THEREFORE,, RESOLVED by the Board of Commissioners of <br />Cabarrus County that, upon approval of the State Health Director: <br />1. Those statutory powers, duties and responsibilities <br />previously retained by the Cabarrus County Board of <br />Health regarding the administration of public health in <br />Cabarrus County shall be and the same are hereby assigned <br />to the Authority which shall henceforth exercise all <br />powers, duties and responsibilities to provide public <br />health services identified in N.C.G.S. 130A -1.1, or <br />otherwise. <br />2. Henceforth, the Authority shall act as the local board of <br />health for Cabarrus County. <br />3. The Cabarrus County Board of Health shall be and the same <br />is hereby dissolved. <br />H -6 Page 352 <br />