[Adopted as Ch. 2.44 of the 1997 Code]
There is created the Board of Health for the City, which shall
consist of the Mayor, who shall be Chairman thereof, all the members
of the City Council, the City Clerk, who shall be secretary of such
Board, and such other members as the Mayor and Council shall, from
time to time provide for and appoint.
A.Â
The Board
of Health shall have the powers and perform the duties assigned to
it by statute or ordinance. It shall be the duty of the Board of Health
to enforce all ordinances of the City which relate to public health,
or relate to nuisance.
B.Â
The Board
of Health shall make all necessary rules and regulations for the protection
of the health of the inhabitants of the City and to guard against
the spread of contagious diseases, and to prevent by necessary rules
the diseases, contagious or otherwise, within the corporate limits
of the City.
A.Â
The Board
of Health is authorized to make such reasonable rules as may be necessary
regarding quarantine and vaccination, for the prevention and spread
of contagious diseases, and to quarantine premises where such diseases
occur for such time as may be necessary to protect public health.
B.Â
The Board
shall have the power to prevent persons from entering or leaving premises
on which a case of contagious or epidemic disease occurs or is found,
and to placard the same with signs indicating the nature of such disease
and the existence of the quarantine.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person violating any order of the Board of Health or refusing
to obey any such order or destroying, mutilating or concealing any
notice posted by or under the authority of the Board of Health shall
be fined not less than $100 nor more than $750 for each offense.
