[Code 1975 §13.07; CC 1989 §11-1]
The Board of Aldermen hereby shall be and is authorized and
empowered to provide by contract, and to pay compensation for public
health services to be provided by any person or political subdivision
of the State for the City or its appropriate departments.
[Code 1975 §4.09; CC 1989 §11-2]
There shall be a Director of Public Health and Sanitation who
shall be the Chief Officer of the Department of Public Health and
Sanitation. By contract under ordinance, the Health Commissioner of
the County may be appointed as the City Director of Public Health
and Sanitation.
[Code 1975 §12.03; CC 1989 §11-3]
The Director of Public Health and Sanitation shall, within budgetary
allocations, establish and maintain such facilities as are needed
to promote public health and the prevention of disease and to regulate,
inspect and provide for public and private sanitation, water and sewer
facilities and to provide for publication and circulation of communications
to the general public in aid of public health and sanitation.
[Code 1975 §12.04; CC 1989 §11-4]
The Director of Public Health and Sanitation and his/her lawfully
appointed deputies are hereby authorized and empowered without the
consent of the owner or occupant, to enter and to go on, through,
or about any land or building where he/she has reason to believe that
a health or sanitation problem exists that could be harmful to the
public, including, but not in limitation, any owners or occupants
of the premises to be inspected.