The mayor shall appoint one or more physicians, each of whom
shall be a graduate of a legally incorporated medical school and who
shall have practiced as such physician for at least five years continuously
prior to appointment and be licensed to practice medicine in the commonwealth.
The mayor shall have the power to relieve any such physician and to
appoint a successor or successors from time to time.
(Prior revision § 2-53; C.O. 80-487)
It shall be the duty of the city physician:
A.
To attend
upon all sick persons under the care of the city authorities elsewhere,
and all other needy residents of the city who may apply to the city
physician;
B.
Under
the direction of the mayor to examine the condition of all officers
upon the police force and fire department and all employees of the
city incapacitated from the performance of their several duties; and
C.
Under
the direction of the city solicitor to examine all persons who claim
to have been injured upon the highway or elsewhere whereby the city
may become liable, and render report thereon to the city solicitor
as and when required by the latter, together with such certificates
as the law and ordinances may require;
D.
At the
request of the city solicitor to render professional aid in court
or otherwise as the latter may designate, in all suits and matters
wherein the city is or may be interested; and
E.
In general,
to perform all the duties and render all the services that may be
incumbent upon the city physician, by the laws of the commonwealth
of the ordinances of the city, in force as of the adoption of the
ordinance chapter from which this chapter derives or thereafter.
(Prior revision § 2-54)
The city physician shall receive such salary as the city council
may by ordinance from time to time determine, which shall be in full
for all services the city physician performs. The city physician may
expend to an amount not exceeding appropriations for that purpose
such sums as the city physician may necessarily expend in the administration
of the affairs of the office. The city physician shall keep an account
of expenditures and certify by signature upon all bills his or her
approval of the same, and the same shall be audited, charged and paid
in the manner as provided by ordinance as of the effective date of
the ordinance from which this chapter derives, for bills of boards
and commissions and heads of departments.
(Prior revision § 2-55)
The mayor shall appoint such assistant city physicians as may
be necessary to assist the city physician in the performance of the
physician's duties, and in all cases the city physician shall be responsible
for the conduct of such assistants. Each assistant shall be paid for
such time as the assistant physician is called upon by the city physician
to serve the city as the mayor and council provide.
(Prior revision § 2-56)
