[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5, §1, 11-15-1960]
There is hereby created, constituted and established for the
City of Albany, Missouri, a Board of Health, which shall consist of
the City Physician, the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §2, 11-15-1960]
The Mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the Board of
Aldermen, shall appoint a duly licensed and practicing physician of
the City of Albany, Missouri, as City Physician, who shall hold office
the same as other appointive officers of said City.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §3, 11-15-1960]
The City Physician shall receive as compensation for his services
such sums as shall be from time to time allowed by the Board of Aldermen.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §4, 11-15-1960]
The Mayor shall be the Chairman of the Board of Health and the
City Clerk shall be the Ex-Officio Clerk thereof.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §5, 11-15-1960]
It shall be the duty of the Board of Health to exercise a strict
supervision over the sanitary conditions of the City of Albany, Missouri,
and take whatever steps may be necessary to prevent the spread or
prevalence of any epidemic, contagious, or infectious disease. Said
Board shall have full power to take all steps, and use all reasonable
measures necessary, to promote and maintain the cleanliness, and general
health of the City. The Board of Health may attend the indigent poor
of the City when called upon to do so, and may also attend all persons
that may become temporary charges of said City.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §6, 11-15-1960]
The members of the Board of Health, the City Chief of Police,
every Policeman, and any agent designated by the Board of Health,
are authorized to enter and examine cellars, tenements and all other
places and buildings within the City, for the purpose of discharging
their duties as prescribed by ordinance.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §7, 11-15-1960]
Any creditable person may, by affidavit, make a complaint of
any nuisance detrimental to the public health, to the Secretary of
the Board of Health. The Secretary shall keep at his office a book
in which he shall enter the complaint of nuisance of such person.
Upon receipt of such complaint, the Board of Health shall immediately
make an investigation of the complaint, and take whatever steps may
be necessary to abate the same, or to prosecute before the Municipal
Judge, the person or persons doing or maintaining the same.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §8, 11-15-1960]
It shall be the duty of the Board of Health, upon complaint
being made to it, on the affidavit of some creditable person or whenever
it shall deem any business, trade, profession, or any other activity
carried on by any person within the corporate limits of the City,
detrimental to the public health, to notify such person to show cause
before the Board of Health, at a time and place to be specified in
such notices why the same should not be so discontinued or removed.
Said notice shall be given at least three (3) days before said person
is to appear before the Board and show cause (except in cases of epidemic
and pestilence, in which case the Board of Health may by general order
direct a shorter time of not less than four (4) hours.) Said notice
shall be served by leaving same at the place of business or residence,
of the parties to be affected thereby, with some person over the age
of fifteen (15) years. Cause may be shown by affidavit, and if in
the opinion of the Board of Health no good and sufficient cause be
shown by 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 necessary.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §9, 11-15-1960]
Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed to affect the rights
and authority of the City Officers, or the jurisdiction of the Municipal
Court of the City of Albany, in any proceedings under any other ordinance
of said City pertaining to nuisances. All actions shall, when instituted
under any such ordinance, proceed as therein directed, and any violation
of the provisions of such ordinance by any person or corporation,
shall be controlled by the ordinance violated under which prosecution
is first instituted.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §10, 11-15-1960]
It shall be the duty of the City Board of Health in all things
not herein set forth, so far as possible, to be guided by the regulations
of the State Board of Health, and to cause to be carried out in all
cases of communicable diseases, the requirements of said Board, as
to prevention and spreading of diseases, as to full or modified quarantine,
as to placarding of places where communicable disease exists, as to
the closing of schools and other public meetings places, and in general
to be an active agency for the promotion of health, as well as for
the prevention and extermination of communicable diseases in accordance
with all regulations of the State Board of Health.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §11, 11-15-1960]
It shall be the duty of the City Physician, whenever he shall
become informed that any person within the City limits of the City
of Albany is suffering from any malignant, infectious, or contagious
disease which in his opinion, or the opinion of the Board of Health,
may endanger the health or lives of the inhabitants of said City,
to make or cause to be made, an examination of said person or persons,
and the disease they are suffering from or afflicted with. From and
after such examination if he, or the Board of Health, shall deem the
same necessary, he, or they, shall cause and order the house wherein
the person or persons so affected or exposed may be, to be quarantined,
and thereafter it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to leave
such house without the written consent of the City Physician.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §12, 11-15-1960]
The Board of Health shall have and exercise sanitary supervision
over all streets, avenues, highways and alleys, and places both public
and private in said City, including public schools, churches, places
of amusement and public resort, and shall, whenever necessary for
the public health or to the health of the citizens of any locality
within said City, have such places cleaned and placed in a sanitary
condition under the supervision of the Board of Health.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §13, 11-15-1960]
Every physician who practices within the City limits, and shall
be called upon to treat any case of communicable disease, as specified
by the State Board of Health, shall as soon as may be (if possible
by telephone) report to the Board of Health such case and in so reporting
shall give the name of the person afflicted, and the house where the
patient be kept; and for every case of neglecting to so report be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §14, 11-15-1960]
Keepers of all hotels or boarding houses and agents of all tenement
houses, or private residences or dwelling houses, having any person
or persons in their hotels, boarding houses, private residences or
dwelling houses, who are afflicted with any infectious or contagious
disease, shall immediately notify the Board of Health of the existence
of such disease, stating the name or names of the person or persons
so afflicted, their age, residence or location, and other information
they possess respecting the case.
[Ord. No. 650 Ch 5 §15, 11-15-1960]
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Chapter
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00),
or imprisonment in the City Jail for a term not to exceed ninety (90)
days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day such person
fails to comply with the provisions of this Chapter shall be a separate
violation, for which punishment may be assessed as in this Chapter.
