[L. 1916, c. 409[1]]
The present Board of Health of the City of Hornell is hereby abolished and the terms of office of the Commissioners thereof and of the Health Officer appointed by said Commissioners or their predecessors shall expire as soon as this Charter takes effect and a new Board of Health and Health Officer have been appointed and qualified pursuant to the provisions of the Public Health Law of the State of New York. The City Clerk shall be the Secretary or Clerk of the Board of Health. The registrar of vital statistics in and for the City of Hornell shall be appointed by the Board of Health. The registrar shall keep a record of the vital statistics and shall, on or before the 10th day of each month, make out and cause to be published a report of the deaths, births and marriages occurring in the city during the previous month; he shall also make an annual report on the first day of January in each year and present the same to the Board of Health and shall perform all other duties required by the general laws of the state. He shall receive for the use of the City of Hornell all fees which by general law the registrar of vital statistics is entitled to demand and receive and pay the same over to the Chamberlain of said city. The Board of Health shall employ, when necessary, a sanitary inspector and a plumbing inspector, at salaries to be fixed by the Common Council, and shall prescribe their powers and duties as such inspectors. They shall perform such other duties as may be assigned by the Board of Health without further or additional compensation therefor. The terms of office of the present sanitary and plumbing inspector shall terminate when this Charter takes effect.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II.