§ 2.08.190. Department of environmental health.

(a)

The department of environmental services shall consist of a director of environmental services, who shall also serve as the city's public health officer, and such staff as may be necessary to carry on the work of the department. The department is responsible for developing, organizing, coordinating, directing and implementing environmental health programs in the City of Wichita and by interlocal agreement may undertake the same functions for Sedgwick County and other incorporated communities in Sedgwick County.

(b)

Unless the context clearly means otherwise, whenever in the Code of the City of Wichita, Kansas reference is made (with or without capitalization) to the Wichita-Sedgwick County department of community health, the Wichita-Sedgwick County department of public health, the Wichita-Sedgwick County board of health, the department of community health, the department of health, health department, the board of health or the department of environmental health, from and after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section, each such reference shall mean the department of environmental services.

(c)

Unless the context clearly means otherwise, whenever in the Code of the City of Wichita, Kansas reference is made (with or without capitalization) to the health officer, the public health officer, the director of community health, the director of community health/housing, the director of public health, the director of the Wichita-Sedgwick county department of community health, the director of the health department of the City of Wichita, Kansas, the environmental health director or the director of the department of environmental health, from and after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this section, each such reference shall mean the director of the department of environmental services.

(Ord. No. 46-617 § 2)