Perform other duties prescribed by law. The director or superintendent of the local health agency or public health services district is willing to accept such THE delegation and agrees to perform or exercise the functions, powers and duties conferred in accordance with the standards of performance established by the director. Whenever in the director's opinion there is cause, the director may terminate all or a part of any such delegation and may reallocate all or a part of any funds that may have been conditioned upon ON the further performance of the functions, powers or duties conferred. The compensation of all personnel shall be as determined pursuant to section 38-611. The director may make and amend rules necessary for the proper administration and enforcement of the laws relating to the public health.
Emergency measures are effective for no longer than eighteen months.
Define and prescribe reasonably necessary measures for detecting, reporting, preventing and controlling communicable and preventable diseases. The rules shall declare certain diseases reportable and shall further establish minimum periods of isolation or quarantine and procedures and measures to institute isolation or quarantine, including the right to a hearing. The rules shall prescribe measures reasonably required to prevent the occurrence of, or to seek early detection and alleviation of, disability, insofar as possible, from communicable or preventable diseases. Define and prescribe reasonably necessary measures, in addition to those prescribed by law, regarding the preparation, embalming, cremation, interment, disinterment and transportation of dead human bodies and the conduct of funerals, relating to and restricted to communicable diseases and regarding the removal, transportation, cremation, interment or disinterment of any dead human body. Define and prescribe reasonably necessary procedures not inconsistent with law in regard to the use and accessibility of vital records, delayed birth registration and the completion, change and amendment of vital records.