County or part-county health districts; local health districts within; villages in two counties

§ 341. County or part-county health districts; local health districts within; villages in two counties. 1. Local health districts within the area of any county or part-county health district shall continue to exist as subdivisions of such health district, and the local boards of health shall continue to exist and to retain their powers and duties subject to the rulings and regulations of the board of health of the county or part-county health district, and may continue to appoint local health officers for such local health districts as provided by law. 2. If a county or part-county health district as heretofore or hereafter established by a board of supervisors shall by its terms contain a portion of any village which lies partly within said county and partly within some other county, said village, without regard to population, shall continue its local district organization in the same manner as before, in which case the health officer of the village acting within the county or part-county health district shall be a deputy of the county health commissioner with reference to acts performed within said county or part-county health district. Provided, however, said village may, by resolution of the village board, limit the local health district to that portion of the village lying in the county outside of the county or part-county health district, in which event the compensation of the local health officer shall be based upon the number of inhabitants in the reduced village health district, and the residents of that portion of the village lying within the county or part-county health district shall not be taxed by the village for the maintenance of such reduced local health district. 3. The governing authorities of any city, village or town or the governing authorities of the cities, villages or towns within a consolidated health district may abolish such city, village, town or consolidated health district as a local health district, whereupon all the powers and duties of the local board of health of such local health district shall devolve upon the board of health of the county or part-county health district and all the powers and duties of the local health officer of such local health district shall devolve upon the county health commissioner. 4. The governing authorities of a town or village, the local board of health of which has been abolished pursuant to the provisions of this section, when authorized by a proposition submitted and adopted in the manner provided by law, may employ a public health nurse or public health nurses, qualified as provided in the sanitary code, and make the necessary appropriation therefor. Such public health nurse, or nurses, shall work under the direction of the county health commissioner. 5. Where the local health district within the area of any county or part county health district is a town in which there are one or more incorporated villages and the local board of health is a town board, appropriations made by the town board for the purposes stated in subdivisions one and four of this section shall be a charge upon the taxable property of that part of the town outside of any incorporated village. If a proposition is submitted as provided in subdivision four of this section for the employment of public health nurses in a town in which there are incorporated villages which constitute a local health district, only such persons who are electors and owners of record of property in the town outside of incorporated villages shall be entitled to vote upon such a proposition.