The Commissioner and the Department shall assume all rights, powers, duties, obligations and responsibilities of the Board of Health as of the effective date of this amendatory ordinance of 2021 except for those Board of Health powers and duties expressly retained. All personnel, books, records, property, and funds relating to the Board of Health shall be made available to the Department. The Department shall succeed to the rights and duties of the Board of Health under existing contracts, grants, loan agreements or programs, or other agreements or ordinances. All rules issued by the Board of Health or the Commissioner in effect as of the effective date of this amendatory ordinance of 2021 shall remain in effect until amended or repealed by the Commissioner.
(Prior code § 9-1(b); Amend Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. I, § 1)