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N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90A-50 (2026)

State Board of Environmental Health Specialist Examiners

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(a) There is hereby created a State Board of Environmental Health Specialist Examiners to register qualified environmental health specialists to practice within the State. Each registered sanitarian and registered sanitarian intern shall be a registered environmental health specialist or a registered environmental health specialist intern as applicable.

(b) It is the sole purpose of this Article to safeguard the health, safety, and general welfare of the public from adverse environmental factors and to register those environmental health professionals practicing as registered environmental health specialists or registered environmental health specialist interns who are qualified by education, training, and experience to work in the public sector in the field of environmental health within the scope of practice as defined in this Article. (1959, c. 1271, s. 2; 1973, c. 476, s. 128; 1981 (Reg. Sess., 1982), c. 1274, s. 2; 2009-443, s. 1(b).)

 

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1986–1996 · leading case: Cates v. North Carolina Dep't of Just., 465 S.E.2d 64 (N.C. Ct. App. 1996).
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Cates v. North Carolina Dep't of Just., 465 S.E.2d 64 (N.C. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 2× “Cates, a registered sanitarian as defined by N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90A-50 (1992), was employed by the Environmental Health Division of the Durham County Health Department.”
King v. North Carolina State Bd. of Sanitarian Examiners, 346 S.E.2d 300 (N.C. Ct. App. 1986). “Chapter 90A, Article 4, entitled “Registrations [sic] of Sanitarians” (G.S. 90A-50, et seq.) was rewritten effective 1 Oc *411 tober 1982 and requires mandatory registration for sanitarians.”
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