There shall be a division of the public health and environmental services department known as the public health services division which division is a local health unit as defined by Section 121.004 Texas Health and Safety Code which is one of several divisions and departments that are charged with the protection of the health of the city. The city manager or his designee shall be responsible for the supervision of such division.
(Ordinance 6657, § 1, adopted 8/3/1995; Ordinance 6904, § 3, adopted 11/7/1996)
The powers and duties of the health services division, may be those delegated thereto by the city manager, law or ordinance unless otherwise delegated to another department or division of the city by the city manager and may include, but not be limited to:
(1) 
Personal health promotion and maintenance services.
(2) 
Infectious disease control and prevention services.
(3) 
Environmental and consumer health programs for the enforcement of health and safety laws relating to food, water, waste control, general sanitation, animal control and vector control.
(4) 
Public health education and information services.
(5) 
Those duties and responsibilities delegated by ordinance and/or the Code of Civil and Criminal Ordinances of the City of Irving, Texas, to the department of health, health department, director of health and/or health director unless otherwise delegated to another department or division of the city by the city manager.
(Ordinance 6657, § 2, adopted 8/3/1995)
That the director of the public health and environmental services department or his designee shall be the manager of the public health services division of the public health and environmental services department. Such director shall appoint and designate a person to be the manager of the public health services division of the public health and environmental services department.
(Ordinance 6657, § 3, adopted 8/3/1995; Ordinance 6904, § 3, adopted 11/7/1996)
The manager of the public health services division shall supervise the operation of the public health services division. The manager of the health services division is authorized to enforce all laws and ordinances relative to public health as designated and delegated by the city manager or his designee whether the manager is referred to as director of health department, director of health, health director or manager of public health services division in the Code of Civil and Criminal Ordinances of the City of Irving, Texas, or other ordinances of the city.
(Ordinance 6657, § 4, adopted 8/3/1995)
The city council may appoint a physician to a two-year term to serve as local health authority and compensate such person. To be qualified for the appointment, the person must be a resident of the state, be licensed to practice medicine by the state board of medical examiners, and be otherwise qualified to practice medicine in the state. The local health authority will take and subscribe to the official oath and file such oath and appointment with the state board of health and the city health board.
(Ordinance 6657, § 5, adopted 8/3/1995; Ordinance 6904, § 1, adopted 11/7/1996)
If the city council of the City of Irving should appoint a local health authority, the local health authority shall have no authority, control, nor supervisory control over the operation of the public health services division of the public health and environmental services department of the city but such local health authority shall have the authority granted a local health authority pursuant to Section 121.024, Texas Health and Safety Code which authority is set forth hereafter:
(1) 
Enforce the laws and ordinances to protect the public health.
(2) 
Aid the state board of health in the enforcement of orders, rules and regulations prescribed by the state board of health.
(3) 
Establish, maintain and enforce quarantines in the health authority's jurisdiction;
(4) 
Aid the state board of health in relation to local quarantine, inspection, disease prevention and suppression, birth and death statistics, and general sanitation in the health authority's jurisdiction;
(5) 
Report the presence of contagious, infectious and dangerous epidemic diseases in the city to the state board of health, city council, city manager, designee of city manager and city health board in the manner and at the times prescribed by such board.
(6) 
Report to the state board of health on any subject on which it is proper for such board to direct that a report be made.
(7) 
Aid the state board of health in the enforcement of sanitation laws, quarantine rules and collections of vital statistics; and
(8) 
Report to the city health board on any subject that will assist such board in its advisory role.
(9) 
Delegate a power or duty imposed on the health authority by this article or state law to a properly qualified physician to act while the health authority is absent or incapacitated.
(Ordinance 6657, § 6, adopted 8/3/1995; Ordinance 6904, § 2, adopted 11/7/1996)