Section 139.03. Definitions.

  In this chapter:

(1)  "Department" means the Wisconsin department of health services.

(2)  "Director of environmental health program" means the person in charge of planning, directing, supervising and evaluating the environmental health services program for a local health department.

(3)  "Director of public health nursing program" means the person in charge of planning, directing, supervising and evaluating the general public health nursing services program for a local health department.

(4)  "Local health department" means an agency of local government that takes any of the forms specified in s. 250.01 (4) , Stats.

(5)  "Local health officer" means the person in charge of a local health department including general administration and the supervision of personnel who direct or carry out public health nursing and environmental health programs and other programs or units of the local health department.

(6)  "Public health nurse" means a person employed by a local health department to provide public health nursing services who is licensed as a registered professional nurse under ch. 441 , Stats. , and who is qualified under s. DHS 139.08 .

(7)  "Public health sanitarian" means a sanitarian as defined in s. 440.98 (1) (b) , Stats., who applies biological, chemical and public health principles to control, eliminate, ameliorate or prevent environmental health hazards, is employed by a local health department and is qualified under s. DHS 139.06 .

(8)  "State health officer" means the individual appointed under s. 250.02 (1) , Stats., by the secretary of the department to develop public health policy for the state and direct state public health programs.

History: Cr. Register, July, 1998, No. 511 , eff. 8-1-98; corrections in (1) and (7) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 6. and 7. , Stats., Register January 2009 No. 637 .