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[§] 19a-200 et seq. [DESCRIPTION] ● Empowers and requires municipal health directors to preserve the public health and prevent the spread of disease ● Requires municipal health directors, or authorized agents or boards of health, to enforce or assist in enforcing the state Public Health Code and regulations adopted by the public health commissioner ● Authorizes municipal health directors to levy fines and penalties for public health violations and grant and rescind license permits (such as for food service establishments or septic systems) ● Allows municipalities to retain the power to adopt, by ordinance, sanitary rules and regulations, but they cannot be inconsistent with the Public Health Code ● Authorizes municipalities to recover the cost of abating, remediating, or removing a nuisance from owner [TITLE] 
Local health directors
MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY TO ADDRESS BLIGHT