[Amended by Ord. No. 53-1; amended by referendum11-8-2022]
The Director of Health shall be appointed by
the Town Manager, with the approval of the Public Health Council of
the State Department of Health. The Director of Health may be a practicing
physician, devoting but part of their time to Town public health work,
except that at any time the Town Manager may require the Director
of Health to give full time to the office. In either case, the salary
of the Director of Health shall be fixed by the Board of Directors
upon recommendation of the Town Manager, except that it may be reduced
only at the start of a fiscal year.
[Amended by ordinance of 8-7-1956; amended by
referendum 11-4-2003; amended by referendum11-8-2022]
To perform the duties of the Director of Health
during a vacancy or their temporary absence or inability to serve,
the Town Manager may appoint some suitable person to act as Director
of Health, with the approval of the State of Connecticut Commissioner
of Health, and the person so appointed shall have all the powers and
be subject to all the duties of the Town Director of Health while
acting as such.
[Amended by ordinance of 8-7-1956; amended by
referendum11-8-2022]
The Director of Health is vested with the exercise
of all jurisdiction, powers and duties vested in and imposed upon
Town Directors of Health by General Statute. The Director of Health
shall have the authority to make such reasonable rules and regulations
as in their judgment are required for the preservation of the public
health, and such rules and regulations, when advertised at least three
(3) times in a newspaper having a general circulation within the Town,
shall have the full force and legality of local ordinances. The Director
of Health shall do and cause to be done whatever is prescribed by
the bylaws or ordinances of the Town and the provisions of the Sanitary
Code of the State to preserve the public health. The Director of Health
shall have authority to appoint, with the approval of the Town Manager,
such deputies, inspectors, assistants and subordinates as may be necessary
and to fix their compensation within the appropriation made for such
purpose by the Board of Directors.
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Editor's Note: See also C.G.S. § 19a-244.
[Amended by Ord. No. 53-1; amended by referendum11-8-2022]
Every order of the Director of Health shall
be in writing, signed by the Director, and shall set a reasonable
time within which compliance therewith is required, and a true copy
thereof shall be served on each person or their agent who shall be
required to comply with such order. If such person or their agent
shall not be a resident of the Town, such copy may be served by sending
the same by registered mail to his last-known address and, if no address
shall be known, then by publishing the same once in a newspaper having
a circulation in the Town. On the failure of any person to comply
with such order, the Director of Health may execute such order and
the expense thereof may be collected as a debt against such person
and may be filed as a lien in favor of the Town until the payment
thereof and may be enforced in a civil action in the name of the Town
or by foreclosure or by any other remedy provided by the General Statutes
for the collection of taxes and charges.
[Amended by Ord. No. 63-1; see Ord. Nos. 52-1 and 52-2]
The Director of Health shall have authority
to compel the owners of property abutting any street or highway in
which a public sanitary sewer is laid to connect any building on such
property with such sewer. Any person who shall fail to connect such
building with such sewer, after having been given reasonable notice
by said Director of Health, shall be fined not more than one hundred
dollars ($100.00). All pipes or drains within any highway through
which sewage passes shall be a public sewer within the meaning of
the provisions of this Charter.
