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               ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2518

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2002 Regular Session

By House Committee on Local Government & Housing (originally sponsored by Representatives Edwards, Dunshee, Lovick, Berkey and Kirby)

Read first time 02/04/2002.  Referred to Committee on .

Establishing a one hundred dollar per day limit on civil penalties for violations of health statutes, rules, and regulations relating to environmental health.

    AN ACT Relating to the authority to issue civil penalties by health districts; amending RCW 70.05.060; and prescribing penalties.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 70.05.060 and 1991 c 3 s 308 are each amended to read as follows:

    Each local board of health shall have supervision over all matters pertaining to the preservation of the life and health of the people within its jurisdiction and shall:

    (1) Enforce through the local health officer or the administrative officer appointed under RCW 70.05.040, if any, the public health statutes of the state and rules promulgated by the state board of health and the secretary of health;

    (2) Supervise the maintenance of all health and sanitary measures for the protection of the public health within its jurisdiction;

    (3) Enact such local rules and regulations as are necessary in order to preserve, promote and improve the public health and provide for the enforcement thereof, including, but not limited to, assessing a civil penalty for violation of a public health statute, rule, or regulation relating to environmental health, not to exceed one hundred dollars per day;

    (4) Provide for the control and prevention of any dangerous, contagious or infectious disease within the jurisdiction of the local health department;

    (5) Provide for the prevention, control and abatement of nuisances detrimental to the public health;

    (6) Make such reports to the state board of health through the local health officer or the administrative officer as the state board of health may require; and

    (7) Establish fee schedules for issuing or renewing licenses or permits or for such other services as are authorized by the law and the rules of the state board of health:  PROVIDED, That such fees for services shall not exceed the actual cost of providing any such services.

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