[Ord. 348, 1/4/1982]
A Board of Health is hereby established in and for the Borough
of Fountain Hill, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of
1966, Feb. 1, P.L. (1965) 1656, No. 581, § 3101. The Board
of Health shall have general supervision over sanitary conditions
in the Borough, shall be constituted as provided in the law, and shall
perform all the duties and may exercise all the powers vested by law
in boards of health in boroughs, provided that the Board of Health
in office at the time of adoption of this Part shall constitute the
Board of Health as established hereby and nothing herein shall affect
or change the tenure of any member of the present Board of Health.
[Ord. 348, 1/4/1982]
1.
The Board of Health may appoint a Borough Health Officer to serve
for such a term as it by resolution shall direct, and to be compensated
in such amount as may be authorized by Borough Council.
2.
It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to attend all stated and
special meetings of the Board of Health and at all times be ready
and available for the prompt performance of his official duties. He
shall perform such duties as are vested in local health officers by
state laws and regulations and by Borough ordinances. He shall make
sanitary inspections and shall execute the orders of the Board of
Health and shall, in the performance of his duties, have the power
and authority of a Borough Police Officer.
[Ord. 348, 1/4/1982]
Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall either: (a)
violate any provision of any lawfully adopted rule or regulation of
the Board of Health for which no specific penalty is provided therein;
(b) fail to obey or comply with any lawful order of the Board of Health
or Health Officer; or, (c) after due and proper notice, fail to abate
any nuisance within the time limit prescribed by the Board of Health
or Health Officer, shall, upon conviction thereof before a District
Justice, be sentenced to a fine of not more than $300 or to imprisonment
not to exceed 30 days; provided, however, that any fine or penalty
and costs imposed under the provisions of this section may be in addition
to the cost of abatement or removal of any nuisance and any amount
that may be lawfully added in the collection thereof.
[Ord. 348, 1/4/1982]
All ordinances of the Borough of Fountain Hill which provide
for the enforcement of same and prosecutions brought thereunder, by
the Health Officer, be and are hereby amended to provide that any
member of the Police Department of the Borough of Fountain Hill may
also enforce and bring prosecutions thereunder.
