There shall be a Board of Health in, the city constituted and appointed as provided by the Public Health Law. All the provisions of the Public Health Law shall apply to the City of Lockport, except so far as they are in conflict with this act. The City Physician shall be the health officer of such city. [§ 310, L. 1911, c. 870]
The City Clerk shall be Clerk of the Board of Health, and it shall be his duty to attend the meetings thereof and keep a record of its proceedings, and such record, or a duly certified copy of the same, or of any part thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein contained in any court or before any officer. Such Clerk shall receive no compensation for his services as Clerk of the Board of Health other than his salary as City Clerk. [§ 311, L. 1911, c. 870]
In addition to the powers conferred by the Public Health Law, the Board of Health in said city shall have power to make such orders and regulations and take such measures as it shall deem effectual to prevent the entrance of any pestilential or infectious disease or diseases into the city; to stop, detain and examine for that purpose every person coming from any place infected, or believed to be infected, with such a disease; to establish, maintain and regulate a pesthouse or hospital at some place within the city, or not exceeding three miles beyond its bounds; to cause any person not being a resident of the city, or if a resident of the city, who is not an inhabitant of this state, and who shall be or be suspected of being infected with any such disease, to be sent to such pesthouse or hospital; to cause any resident of the city infected with any such disease to be removed to such pesthouse or hospital, if the Health Physician and two other physicians of the city shall certify that the removal of such resident is necessary for the preservation of the public health; to remove from the city or destroy any furniture, wearing apparel or goods, wares or merchandise, or other articles or property of any kind which shall be suspected of being tainted or infected with any pestilence, or which shall be in or be likely to pass into such a state as to generate or propagate disease; to require and compel every physician in said city to report to the Health Officer any case of infectious or pestilential disease of which he may have knowledge within said city; to require and compel the filling up, draining, cleaning, cleansing and regulating of any grounds, yards, basins, slips or cellars within said city that shall be sunken, damp, foul, encumbered with filth and rubbish, or unwholesome or dangerous to the public health, and for filling or altering and mending all sinks and privies within the city, and for the directing the mode of constructing them in future, and to abate or compel the abatement of all nuisances of every description which are or may be injurious to the public health in any way and in any manner that they may deem expedient, and from time to time to do all acts, make all regulations and ordinances which they shall deem necessary or expedient for the preservation of health and the suppression of disease in the city, and to carry into effect and execute the powers granted to them. [§ 312, L. 1911, c. 870]
The owner, driver, conductor, captain, master or person in charge of any stage, railroad car, canal boat, steamboat or other public conveyance or vessel which shall enter said city, having on board thereof any person known to such owner, driver, conductor, captain, master or person in charge to be sick of any malignant fever or other pestilential or infectious disease, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, unless the person so diseased became so sick while in such public conveyance or vessel and could not be removed therefrom; and in such excepted case it shall be the duty of such owner, driver, conductor, captain, master or person in charge, within two hours after his arrival in said city, to report in writing to the Mayor, or some other member of the Board of Health, or to the Health Officer, the name of such sick person and the fact of his being on board such public conveyance or vessel, and the name, number, description and location of such conveyance or vessel; and he shall not permit such sick person to land or be put down, remove or be removed from such conveyance or vessel until the Health Officer or some member of the Board of Health shall give permission therefor; and any neglect or violation of these provisions, or any or either of them, shall be a misdemeanor. [§ 313, L. 1911, c. 870]
The Board of Health shall have power, by an order in writing for that purpose, to be served on the master, captain or person in charge of any canal boat, steamboat or other vessel, or any owner or consignee thereof, or the owner, driver, conductor or person in charge of any stage, railroad car or other public conveyance, if such boat, steamboat or vessel, or such stage, railroad car or conveyance be by it suspected to have on board any infected or diseased person or property, to require such boat, steamboat or vessel, stage, railroad car or conveyance not to enter the city, or to remove to some certain distance not exceeding three miles from the city; and every such master, captain, consignee, owner, driver, conductor or person in charge who shall be served with such order shall be guilty of a misdemeanor if such boat, steamboat, vessel, stage, railroad car or conveyance shall enter the city in violation of such order or shall not be removed according to the terms of such order within a reasonable time not exceeding three hours after the service of such notice. [§ 314, L. 1911, c. 870]
Every keeper of an inn or boarding or lodging house in the city who shall receive or have in his house at any time any sick person shall report the fact and the name of the person in writing, within six hours after he came to the house or was taken sick therein, to the Mayor or Health Officer or a member of the Board of Health; every physician in the city shall report, under his hand, to one of the officers above named, the name, residence and disease of every patient whom he shall have sick of any infectious or pestilential disease, within six hours after he shall have visited such patient. A violation of either of the provisions of this section, or any part of either of them, shall be a misdemeanor. [§ 315, L. 1911, c. 870]
Any person who shall knowingly bring or procure, or cause to be brought into the city, any property of any kind, tainted or infected with any malignant fever or pestilential or infectious disease, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [§ 316, L. 1911, c. 870]
Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under any of the provisions of the last four preceding sections shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 in amount, or by imprisonment in the County Jail of Niagara County, for a term not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. [§ 317, L. 1911, c. 870]
The Board of Health, in time of great and imminent peril to public health from pestilence, shall have power to and shall take such measures and do or cause to be done such acts as the public safety and health shall demand and as may be approved in writing by the Mayor of the city. Such peril shall not be deemed to exist, except during such period of time as the Mayor and Board of Health shall by proclamation declare. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prevent the city from making sums available for such purpose pursuant to § 29.00 of the Local Finance Law. [§ 318, L. 1911, c. 870; amended by L. 1943, c. 710]