Section 1. The city council shall appoint a
health officer, whose term of service shall be one year; he shall
be a physician and possessed of other necessary qualifications of
a member of the board of health as hereinafter provided, and shall
have general supervision of the city hospitals and dispensaries, and
perform such other duties as the city council shall prescribe.
Section 2. The city council shall establish
a board of health, which board shall consist of three members, who
shall be physicians and graduates of regular medical schools, and
shall have been at the time of their appointment, resident and practicing
physicians in the city for at least one year immediately preceding
such appointment.
Section 3. The members of the board of health
shall be appointed by the city council, and the health officer shall
be a member of said board and president thereof. Immediately after
their appointments said board shall proceed to elect a clerk (not
of its members), who shall be a fit and competent person to perform
the duties of clerk of the board, and who shall likewise be a graduate
physician of some medical school. Vacancies occurring in the board
by expiration of the time of service, resignation or otherwise, shall
be filled by the appointment of the city council.
Section 4. The board of health is charged with
a general supervision over the public health of the city, and to see
that its rules and regulations and the laws and ordinances of the
city, in relation thereto, are enforced and observed.
Section 5. Said board shall, when it deems
necessary, appoint resident physicians for the city hospitals, for
the quarantine, and select all other officers for said board, as well
as for the city hospitals, and fix the compensation for such person,
and select a suitable place for the meeting of the board.
Section 6. The board of health shall meet at
least twice a month, between the first day of April and the first
day of November of each year, and oftener if necessity requires, and
during the remainder of the year when called by the president.
Section 7. The said board of health shall have
power to appoint one or more sanitary inspectors at such times as
it shall deem proper who shall have authority to enter into and examine
in the daytime all buildings, lots and places of every description
within the city, and to ascertain and report to the board of the condition
thereof, so far as the public health may be affected thereby.
Section 8. The board of health shall give all
such directions and adopt all such measures for cleansing and purifying
all such buildings, lots, and other places, and to do or cause to
be done everything in relation thereto which in its opinion shall
be deemed necessary. Every person who shall disobey any order of the
board of health which shall have been personally served upon him to
abate or remove any nuisance in the manner and at the time prescribed
in the order, shall, on complaint of the board of health, or of any
person serving such order, before the city recorder, be liable for
arrest and punishment for each offense by a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars ($500.00), or imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30)
days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 9. It shall be lawful for the board
of health, in all cases when it may be deemed necessary for the more
speedy execution of its orders, to cause any such nuisance or nuisances
to be abated or removed at the expense of the city, and to cause any
such nuisance or nuisances which may exist upon the property of non-resident
owners or where the owners of such property cannot be found, or are
unknown and cannot be ascertained, to cause any such nuisances to
be abated and removed in like manner at the expense of the city, and
the sum or sums so expended in the abatement or removal of such nuisances
in such cases with lawful interest thereon, shall be an encumbrance,
as any tax upon real estate, upon the lots or premises from or upon
which said nuisance or nuisances shall be abated or removed, and payment
thereof may be enforced in like manner as other taxes upon real estate
authorized to be levied by the city.
Section 10. It shall be the duty of the board
of health to cause any avenue, street or alley, or other passage whatever
to be fenced up or otherwise enclosed if it thinks that the public
safety requires it and to adopt suitable measures to prevent all persons
from going to any part of the city so enclosed, except by authority;
by resolution, to direct any bedding, clothing, putrid or unsound
beef, pork, fish, hides or skins of any kind, or any other articles
found within the city, and which in its opinion shall be dangerous
to the inhabitants thereof, to be destroyed in such manner as it may
direct; and it may employ such persons as it may deem proper to remove
or destroy such articles; and any person who shall in any manner resist
or hinder any person so employed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
of an ordinance, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by
a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisonment
not exceeding thirty (30) days or both, and all such fines, when collected,
shall be paid into the city treasury; to procure suitable places for
the reception of persons sick of any pestilential, infectious or contagious
diseases, and in all cases, when sick persons cannot otherwise be
provided for, to procure for them medicine, medical and other proper
attendance and provisions, to forbid and prevent all communication
with the house and family infected with any contagious, infectious
or pestilential disease except by means of physicians, nurses and
messengers, to carry the necessary advice, medicines and provisions
to the afflicted; to publish from time to time all such regulations
as it shall make, in such manner as to secure early and full publicity
thereto.
Section 11. The board of health during the
prevalence of Asiatic cholera, or any epidemic disease, when by it
deemed necessary, shall have power to take possession of and occupy
for temporary hospitals, any suitable building or buildings in the
city; but the City of Chillicothe shall pay for private property,
so taken, a just compensation for the same.
Section 12. It shall be the duty of the board
of health on complaint being made to it, or whenever it shall deem
any business, trade or profession carried on by any person or persons
or corporations within the sanitary jurisdiction of the city, detrimental
to the public health, to notify such person or persons or corporations
to show cause before the board of health at a time and place to be
specified in such notice, why the same should not be discontinued
or removed, which notice shall not be a notice of less than three
days; except in cases of epidemic and pestilence, the board of health
may, by general order, direct a shorter time, not less than twenty-four
(24) hours, and may be served by leaving same at the place of business
or residence of the parties to be affected thereby. Cause may be shown
by affidavit, and if in the opinion of the board of health no good
and sufficient cause be shown why the same should not be discontinued,
or removed, the board shall order the said parties to discontinue
or remove the same within such time as the board may deem reasonable
or necessary, and the order of the board shall be final and conclusive
therein.
Section 13. Any person failing or refusing
to obey such lawful order of said board of health, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished
by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment
of not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment;
and such person or persons shall be subject to like punishment for
each and every day he, she or they shall continue such business, trade
or profession after the time specified in the order of the board of
health for the removal of the same.
Section 14. Such fines, as mentioned in the
preceding section, shall be collected as other fines, and when so
collected, shall be paid into the city treasury.
Section 15. It shall be the duty of each and
every practicing physician in the City of Chillicothe:
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Whenever required by the board of health, to report to such
board at such time and in such form as it may prescribe, the number
of persons attacked with any pestilential, contagious or infectious
diseases attended by such physician for the twenty-four hours next
preceding and the number of persons attended by such physician who
shall have died within the twenty-four hours next preceding such report,
of any such pestilential, contagious, or infectious disease.
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To report in writing to said board of health every patient who
shall have been laboring under any pestilential or infectious diseases
within the twenty-four hours after he shall ascertain or suspect the
nature of such disease.
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To report to the board of health, when by it required, the death
of any patient who shall have died of any disease within twenty-four
hours from the time of such death, and to state in such report the
specific nature and type of such disease.
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[Amended by Ord. No. 2001-99 enacted November 26, 2001, and approved in the election
of February 5, 2002]
Section 16. Any practicing physician who shall
neglect or refuse to perform the duties required of him, by or in
any of the foregoing sections, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more
than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense, to be collected
and paid into the city treasury as other fines.
Section 17. The members of the board shall
each receive such a salary for their services as the city council
shall from time to time determine, and the city council shall, in
making their annual appropriations for the expenses of the city government,
estimate and appropriate such sums as may be necessary for the payment
of the salaries and compensation of the members of the board, and
of such other medical officers, and all other servants and employees
as they are herein authorized to appoint and employ, and all other
necessary expenses incurred by the board in the performance of their
duties herein prescribed, and which expenses shall be audited and
all owed and paid as other expenses of the city government.
Section 18. The city council shall have power
to further define the duties of the board of health, and to pass such
ordinances in aid of the power of the board of health as may tend
to promote and secure the general health of the inhabitants of the
city.
Section 19. It shall be the duty of all magistrates
and civil officers, and all citizens, to aid, to the utmost of their
power, the board of health in the performance of their duties, as
herein prescribed.