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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Description","value":"State regulation of the broad field of public health practitioners dates from 1959 with the creation of the State Board of Sanitarian Examiners.  The statute defined a sanitarian as \"a person who is  qualified by education and experience in the biological and sanitary sciences to engage in the promotion and protection of the public health by the application of technical knowledge to solve problems of a sanitary nature and the development of methods for the control of man's environment for the protection of health, safety and well-being.\" The board consisted of nine members appointed by the governor:  the state health director or his representative, the dean of the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina, the director of the Division of Sanitary Engineering of the State Board of Health, four sanitarians, a local health director and a private citizen.  After staggered terms for the first board, subsequent appointees would serve for four years.  Once registration had begun, sanitarians appointed to the board had to be registered.  The board was authorized to adopt  necessary rules and regulations and an official seal, and to employ any necessary personnel.  Each board member was empowered to administer oaths to take testimony.  In accordance with statutory provisions governing occupational licensing agencies, the board was required to  file annual reports with the secretary of state, indicating licenses issued, refused, suspended, and revoked.  The enabling act established minimum qualifications for applicants as twenty-one years of age, U.S. citizenship, good moral character, a four-year degree with a major in biological and/or physical science, three years of experience in the field of environmental sanitation under the supervision of a registered sanitarian (or two years experience and one year of graduate study in sanitary science), and successful completion of the board's exam.  For six months after the effective date of the law (1 January 1960), practicing sanitarians could apply for certification without examination. Holders of certificates from another state could likewise be registered upon payment of a fee.  Certificates were to be renewed annually; failure to do so for two consecutive years necessitated passage of the examination for recertification.  The board could refuse, suspend, or  revoke registration for various causes, such as conviction of a felony, fraud or deceit in the application, habitual use of narcotics or alcohol, defrauding the public, and failure to renew a license within six months after expiration while still representing oneself as a registered  sanitarian.  Such misrepresentation was also punishable as a misdemeanor,  the sentence to be imposed at the court's discretion.  The board was   empowered to apply to any superior court judge for an injunction to  prevent violations of the law.  Apart from nominal changes in board membership resulting from governmental reorganization -- the secretary of the Department of Human Resources and a sanitary engineer employed by the department replaced the two representatives from the State Board of Health in 1973 -- the board of examiners operated as created for twenty-two years. In 1977, the legislation which established the Governmental Evaluation Commission to determine the continued necessity of numerous state regulatory agencies included the Board of Sanitarian Examiners among those to be terminated unless justified.  In response to this review, the enabling statute was rewritten and recodified in 1981 and the board recreated with minor revision.  Membership was slightly altered: the sanitary engineer from the Department of Human Resources was to be an employee of the Environmental Health Section of the Division of Health Services, and an environmental sanitarian educator from a college or university was to replace the dean of the School of Public Health. The board was instructed to keep a record of its proceedings, a registry of applicants, and another of currently licensed practitioners.   Minimum qualifications for applicants were revised with the deletion of age and citizenship requirements and the reduction of required years of experience from three to two.  Educational specifications were also revised to reduce the number of science courses required and to add a required course of specialized instruction and training in public health sanitation.  A window of six months was opened to permit  practicing sanitarians to register without satisfying the minimal qualifications.  The 1981 statute also created the classification of sanitarian intern for college graduates who lacked the required experience and specialized training.  Interns could obtain a temporary certificate for no more than three years.  Finally, punishable offenses were expanded to include dishonesty, incompetence, neglect of duty, and unprofessional or dishonorable conduct.  In 1989 additional legislation clarified the purpose of the 1981 statute, redefined sanitarian, and specified public health occupations not subject to the law.  A sanitarian was defined as a qualified public health professional with the necessary education and experience to \"effectively plan, organize, manage, execute and evaluate one or more of the many diverse elements comprising the field of environmental health,\" particularly in the realms of lodging and institutional  sanitation, food, milk and dairy sanitation, and on-site sewage  treatment and disposal.  Specifically exempted occupations included teachers, researchers, engineers, industrial hygienists, chemists, soil scientists, public health officers, and licensed medical  practitioners.  The 1989 law also revised educational qualifications for sanitarians and the experience requirements of interns, and empowered the board to demand continuing education for renewal of certificates.  REFERENCES:  S.L., 1957, c. 1377.  S.L., 1959, c. 1271.  S.L., 1973, c. 476, s. 128; c. 1331.  S.L., 1977, c. 712.  S.L., 1979, c. 744.  S.L., 1981, c. 1274.  S.L., 1989, c. 545; c. 727, s. 23.  G.S. 90A-50 through 90A-66 [1993]."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"3 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Finding aids"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"This item is provided courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina and is a public record according to G.S.132."},{"label":"Source Collections","value":["Board of Sanitarian Examiners Records. 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