2012 Minnesota Statutes

144.076 MOBILE HEALTH CLINIC.

The state commissioner of health may establish, equip, and staff with the commissioner's own members or volunteers from the healing arts, or may contract with a public or private nonprofit agency or organization to establish, equip, and staff a mobile unit, or units to travel in and around poverty stricken areas and Indian reservations of the state on a prescribed course and schedule for diagnostic and general health counseling, including counseling on and distribution of dietary information, to persons residing in such areas. For this purpose the state commissioner of health may purchase and equip suitable motor vehicles, and furnish a driver and such other personnel as the department deems necessary to effectively carry out the purposes for which these mobile units were established or may contract with a public or private nonprofit agency or organization to provide the service.

History:

1971 c 940 s 1; 1975 c 310 s 3; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1986 c 444