The city council shall appoint a health officer to administer the state and local laws relating to public health in the city. The health officer shall be a competent physician, legally qualified to practice medicine in the state and shall be a resident of the state. The health officer shall serve a term of two (2) year from the date of appointment and may be appointed to successive terms. The health officer, upon appointment, shall take and subscribe to the official oath of office. The city secretary shall file a copy of the oath and appointment with the department of state health services.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.101)
The health officer shall be fully responsible to the city council in any matters affecting the public health and the prevention and containment of contagious diseases. The health officer shall have the authority to declare and enforce quarantine regulations and to make reports to the state board of health as required by law and discharge and perform his or her duties under the direction, rules, regulations and requirements of the state board of health.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.103)
Any person who shall willfully disregard any reasonable quarantine order, instruction or regulation concerning any infectious or contagious disease, within the city, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Provided, that within the meaning of this article, the city health officer, the city marshal or any of his deputies, or any guard or other employee acting under authority of either, shall be deemed competent to make and issue such order, instructions and regulations; and provided further, that in case any violator of this article shall be a minor, under the age of fourteen (14) years, the parents or guardians, or person ordinarily in charge and control of said minor, shall be subject to prosecution under this article instead of such minor.
(1995 Code, sec. 6.104)