(1) The Department of Health and Human Services shall secure and maintain in all parts of the state an official record and notification of reportable diseases, illnesses, or poisonings, provide popular literature upon the different branches of public health and distribute the same free throughout the state in a manner best calculated to promote that interest, prepare and exhibit in the different communities of the state public health demonstrations accompanied by lectures and audiovisual aids, provide preventive services to protect the public, and in all other effective ways prevent the origin and spread of disease and promote the public health. (2) The department may provide technical services to and on behalf of health care providers and may charge fees for such services in an amount sufficient to recover the administrative costs of such services. Such fees shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the Health and Human Services Cash Fund.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-505
Department of Health and Human Services; public health; duties; fees
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Jasa Ex Rel. Jasa v. Douglas County (1994)
Most recently applied in Jasa Ex Rel. Jasa v. Douglas County (January 1994)
Laws 1919, c. 190, tit
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