board of health

board of health
A public body, municipal or state, in charge of the sanitary and hygienic affairs of a community or the state. An administrative agency created by legislative act, acting as an arm of the state or municipal government, according to the authority vested in it upon its creation or thereafter conferred, for the essential purpose of protecting the public health. 25 Am J1st Hlth § 5.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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