(a) appoint a local health officer who is a physician or a person with a master's

degree in public health or the equivalent and with appropriate experience, as

determined by the department, and shall fix the health officer's salary;

(b) elect a presiding officer and other necessary officers;

(c) employ necessary qualified staff;

(d) adopt bylaws to govern meetings;

(e) hold regular meetings quarterly and hold special meetings as necessary;

(f) supervise destruction and removal of all sources of filth that cause disease;

(g) guard against the introduction of communicable disease;

(h) supervise inspections of public establishments for sanitary conditions;

(i) subject to the provisions of 50-2-130, adopt necessary regulations that are not

less stringent than state standards for the control and disposal of sewage from private

and public buildings that is not regulated by Title 75, chapter 6, or Title 76, chapter 4.