Section 139.04. General requirement.

 

(1)  Except as provided in sub. (2) , no person may be employed or may continue to be employed by a local health department to perform the duties of a local health officer, public health sanitarian, public health nurse, director of environmental health program or director of public health nursing program unless he or she meets the qualifications set forth in this chapter. The state health officer may, on his or her own initiative or upon request, review the qualifications of persons applying for or functioning in positions described in this chapter, and may advise the employing unit whether it considers a person applying for or functioning in a position described in this chapter to be qualified or not under this chapter.

(2)  Persons employed by local health departments on December 1, 1984 are exempt from the provisions of sub. (1) with the approval of the state health officer.

History: Cr. Register, July, 1998, No. 511 , eff. 8-1-98.