§ 101225 County Health Department Approval

• •Provisional (temporary) approval can be granted by the state health department.
• •The county health department must meet the minimum standards listed elsewhere in the law.
• •The approval is allowed even if the county health department doesn’t serve every city with fewer than 50,000 people.

County X has a health department that follows all the required rules, but it only provides services to three of the five towns in the county, and the two towns it skips each have 30,000 residents.

Even though the county health department isn’t serving all the small towns, the state can still give it a provisional approval because it meets the minimum standards.