[Ord. No. 18 §1, 2-11-1963]
The Mayor, with the consent of the Board of Aldermen, may annually
or at such time as may be expedient, appoint a City Physician for
said City of Lake Tapawingo, Missouri, who shall be a regularly licensed
physician in Jackson County, Missouri; which appointment shall be
a matter of record, together with the amount of fees to be paid such
physician; provided however, that the Mayor, with the consent of the
Board of Aldermen, may appoint a member of the Board to such office
of City Physician, provided said person shall be a regularly licensed
physician.
[Ord. No. 18 §2, 2-11-1963]
The City Physician, if appointed, the Mayor, the City Marshal
and the City Clerk shall constitute the Board of Health of the City
of Lake Tapawingo, Missouri, the Mayor acting as Chairman of said
Board of Health.
[Ord. No. 18 §5, 2-11-1963]
The City Clerk shall act as Clerk for said Board of Health and
in a book kept for that purpose, there shall be kept a record of all
proceedings and orders made by said Board.
[Ord. No. 18 §3, 2-11-1963]
The Board of Health shall have supervision over all infectious
and contagious diseases and general supervision over all conditions
in said City that affect the health of its inhabitants and have full
power and authority to regulate and control all such conditions and
to cause the removal or destruction of all nuisances that affect or
may be liable in any way to affect the health of the inhabitants of
the City.
[Ord. No. 18 §4, 2-11-1963]
The Board of Health, upon the advice of the City Physician,
shall have the right to quarantine any case or cases of infectious
or contagious diseases within the limits of said City as conditions
may require in the judgment of said Board and they may regulate the
extent of said quarantine as may protect the health of the inhabitants
of the City.
[Ord. No. 18 §6, 2-11-1963]
The Board of Health shall report to the Board of Aldermen from
time to time as required by said Board of Aldermen concerning its
activities and may recommend to the Board of Aldermen the adoption
of regulations and the passage of ordinances for the prevention or
the introduction of contagious diseases in the City and the abatement
of same and the adoption of quarantine and enforcement thereof within
five (5) miles of the City. They may also recommend that the Board
of Aldermen exercise its statutory power by ordinance to secure the
general health of the inhabitants of the City by measures to regulate,
suppress and abate slaughterhouses, slaughtering animals, stockyards,
soap and other factories, pig pens, cow stables, and other stables
and dairies, and to remove the same and to regulate or prevent the
carrying on of any business which may be dangerous or detrimental
to the public health, or the manufacturing or rendering of articles
obnoxious to the health of the inhabitants; and the passage of ordinances
for the prevention of nuisances and their abatement.
[Ord. No. 18 §7, 2-11-1963]
If any person, firm or corporation quarantined by the Board
of Health violates said quarantine, he/she or it shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor for each and every day that such violation shall
continue.
