Editor's Note: Ordinance No. 02-2011 was originally adopted as Ch. 108 but was renumbered to Ch. 13 to accommodate the alphabetical organization of the Code.
Wherever appropriate, words used in this chapter in the singular
may include the plural or the plural may be read as the singular;
and the masculine may include the feminine.
The administration of the health regulations of the Borough of Boyertown
shall be enforced by the Board of Health or its duly authorized representative,
which shall have the powers and duties to enforce the laws of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the regulations of the State Department
of Health, all ordinances of the Borough of Boyertown enacted to prevent
the introduction and spread of infectious or contagious diseases,
and any and all public health-related rules and regulations now or
hereafter adopted by and enacted and ordained by the Borough Council
of Boyertown; to abate and remove all nuisances which the Board of
Health shall deem prejudicial to the public health; to mark infected
houses or places; and to recommend all such other rules and regulations
as shall be deemed necessary for the preservation of the public health.
Any recommended rules and regulations shall not become effective until
they have been approved by the Borough Council and enacted as ordinances
of the Borough of Boyertown. The Board of Health shall also have the
power, with the consent of Borough Council, in case of a prevalence
of any contagious or infectious disease, to establish one or more
emergency hospitals, and to make provisions and regulations for the
maintenance and management of the same.
The Board of Health shall also have the power to recommend to Borough
Council all necessary rules and regulations not inconsistent with
law, for carrying into effect the powers and functions with which
the Board of Health is invested by law, and the power and authority
relating to the public health conferred on boroughs. Such rules and
regulations shall not become effective until they have been approved
by the Borough Council and enacted as ordinances of the Borough of
Boyertown.