§ 31.112. FUNDING.


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  • (A) Pursuant to I.C. 16-20-2-17, the County Council shall annually assess a levy on the assessed valuation of taxable property for the maintenance of the County Health Department.
    (B) The taxes shall be paid into the County Treasury and placed in a special fund to be known as the County Health Department Fund which shall be used only for the purposes provided by this subchapter and by law, and shall be drawn by the proper offices of the county upon the properly authenticated vouchers of the County Health Department.
    (C) The County Council shall appropriate from the County Department Fund money necessary to maintain the County Health Department.
    (D) The tax levy provided for in this subchapter and by state law may not be made upon property within the corporate limits of any city maintaining its own full-time health department.
    (Prior Code, § 31.087) (Ord. 1098A, passed 1-14-1992; Ord. 104D, passed 6-9-1992)