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Chapter 144
Section 144.055
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144.055 HOME SAFETY PROGRAMS.
Subdivision 1. Preventing home accidents; working with local boards. The state
commissioner of health is authorized to develop and conduct by exhibit, demonstration and by
health education or public health engineering activity, or by any other means or methods which
the commissioner may determine to be suitable and practicable for the purpose, a program in
home safety designed to prevent accidents and fatalities resulting therefrom. The commissioner
shall cooperate with boards of health as defined in section 145A.02, subdivision 2, the Minnesota
Safety Council, and other interested voluntary groups in its conduct of such programs.
Subd. 2. Sharing equipment and staff. For the purpose of assisting boards of health to
develop community home safety programs and to conduct such surveys of safety hazards in
municipalities and counties, the commissioner may loan or furnish exhibit, demonstration, and
educational materials, and may assign personnel for a limited period to such boards of health.
History: 1957 c 290 s 1; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1987 c 309 s 24
Subdivision 1. Preventing home accidents; working with local boards. The state
commissioner of health is authorized to develop and conduct by exhibit, demonstration and by
health education or public health engineering activity, or by any other means or methods which
the commissioner may determine to be suitable and practicable for the purpose, a program in
home safety designed to prevent accidents and fatalities resulting therefrom. The commissioner
shall cooperate with boards of health as defined in section 145A.02, subdivision 2, the Minnesota
Safety Council, and other interested voluntary groups in its conduct of such programs.
Subd. 2. Sharing equipment and staff. For the purpose of assisting boards of health to
develop community home safety programs and to conduct such surveys of safety hazards in
municipalities and counties, the commissioner may loan or furnish exhibit, demonstration, and
educational materials, and may assign personnel for a limited period to such boards of health.
History: 1957 c 290 s 1; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1987 c 309 s 24
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