The rules and regulations herein contained shall
be known as the "Sanitary Code of the Monroe County Health District."
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
CHARTER
The Charter of the County of Monroe.
DIRECTOR
The Monroe County Health Director.
HEALTH DISTRICT
The Monroe County Health District established under Article
9, § 1017-a, of the Optional County Government Law.
PERSON
Individual, group of individuals, firm, public or private
corporation, industry, association, trust, estate, partnership, copartnership,
government agency, political subdivision, municipality, town, village,
school district or any other legal entity.
SANITARY CODE
Shall mean and comprise the rules and regulations now and
hereafter formulated, promulgated and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of Monroe County pursuant to Article 9, § 1017-a, of the
Optional County Government Law.
STATE SANITARY CODE
The Sanitary Code established by the Public Health Council
of the State of New York.
The provisions of the Sanitary Code shall be
in force throughout Monroe County. As provided by the Charter and
the Public Health Law, the provisions of this code shall have the
force and effect of law.
It shall be the duty of each local board of
health and of each local health officer in Monroe County, existing
pursuant to law, to enforce every regulation of the Sanitary Code.
The regulations of this code shall be supplemental
to the regulations, rules and orders of the State Sanitary Code, Public
Health Law, and other New York State laws relating to public health
and shall, as to matters to which they refer, and in the territory
prescribed therefor by law, supersede all local ordinances heretofore
or hereafter enacted inconsistent therewith.
No person shall remove, mutilate or conceal
any authorized notice or placard of the Department of Health posted
in or on any premises or public place except by permission of the
Director or an authorized representative thereof.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed
to restrict or abrogate the authority of any city or any village or
any town in the Health District to adopt and enforce additional ordinances
or to enforce existing ordinances relating to health and sanitation,
provided such ordinances are not inconsistent with the provisions
of § 1017-a of the Optional County Government Law, and/or
the State Sanitary Code, and/or this Sanitary Code.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed
to restrict or abrogate the authority of any city or any village or
any town in the Health District to adopt and enforce additional ordinances
or to enforce existing ordinances relating to the regulation, control
and/or issuance of any license and/or renewal and/or revocation thereof,
and to charge and collect a fee therefor; provided, however, that
whenever inspection as to health and sanitation is required, no such
city or such village or such town shall issue or renew such license
without first having obtained certification from the Department of
Health of compliance with applicable rules and regulations now or
hereafter formulated, promulgated and adopted by the Board of Supervisors
pursuant to the provisions of § 1017-a of the Optional County
Government Law, and/or applicable provisions of the State Sanitary
Code, Public Health Law, and/or other New York State laws relating
to public health.
Should any section, paragraph, sentence or phrase
in this Sanitary Code be declared unconstitutional and invalid for
any reason, the remainder of the Code shall not be affected, and shall
remain in full force and effect, and to that end the provisions of
this code are declared to be severable.