[Adopted as Ch. 15 of the 1963 City Code
(Ch. 35 of the 1980 Code)]
[Amended 7-10-2007 by Doc. 76]
The Board of Health shall annually in the month
of February, as soon as practicable after such appointment, organize
by the choice of a Chairman and may make rules and regulations for
its own government and that of its own government and that of its
officers, agents and assistants.
A.
The Board of Health may make sanitary rules and regulations
regarding:
(1)
The inspection and the care, manufacture, keeping
and exposing for sale and the sale of ice, milk, fruits, ice cream,
breadstuffs, vegetables, provisions, meats and other articles of food.
(2)
The care, keeping and disposition of house offal,
manure, fat, bones, garbage, house dirt, ashes, waste and rubbish,
etc.
(3)
The construction, care and maintenance of wells, cisterns,
vaults, privies and cesspools.
(4)
Plumbing and house drainage, when not repugnant to
any law or ordinance relative thereto.
(5)
The sanitary condition and occupancy of tenement,
lodging houses and boardinghouses.
(6)
The keeping and breeding of birds, fowl, swine, goats
and all other domestic animals within the City limits, or within specified
areas or districts thereof.
(7)
The location, use, care and maintenance of stables
and dumps.
(8)
The location, use, care and maintenance of any other
buildings within the City for purposes deemed unsanitary or dangerous
to the public health:
(9)
Nuisances, sources of filth or causes of sickness
of all kinds.
(10)
The notice, care, treatment, isolation, quarantining
and disinfection of persons, buildings, places or localities infected
or in danger or suspected of being infected with dangerous, infectious
or communicable diseases.
(11)
Cemeteries and burials.
B.
The Board may make such further rules and regulations
in the interest of public health and sanitation as it may from time
to time deem necessary or expedient, except as otherwise provided
or limited by law or ordinance.
All rules and regulations made by the Board of Health concerning the matters specified in § 11-32 shall, after such publication thereof as may be required by law or ordinance and after such approval, if any, by the State Department of Health as may be required by law, have the force and effect of ordinances of the City. Any violation of such rules and regulations shall be subject to the fines and penalties provided for the violation of any section of this Code, except as otherwise provided by law.
[Amended 7-10-2007 by Doc. 76]
The Board of Health shall cause all rules and regulations made and promulgated by it in accordance with the provisions of §§ 11-32 and 11-33 to be printed in full in pamphlet form in sufficient quantities to supply all applicants therefor with copies thereof, and such copies shall be kept on hand for distribution to applicants therefor at the office of the Board of Health, at the police station and at the public library.
The Board of Health shall annually, in May,
investigate and submit to the Mayor estimates of the expenditures
deemed by it to be necessary for the operation and maintenance of
its department for the current municipal year.
The Board of Health shall keep, in books provided
for that purpose, full and complete records and accounts of its official
acts, receipts and expenditures from all sources and for all purposes,
including a record of all persons employed by it and the nature, time
and terms of their employment, and such records and accounts shall
at all times be subject to the inspection of the City Council, the
Mayor and the Auditor of Accounts.
The Board of Health shall annually, in July,
make to the Mayor a complete and detailed report of all its official
acts and all its official receipts and expenditures during the municipal
year next preceding the first day of July, including a record of the
names and wages of all officers, inspectors or persons appointed or
employed by it and when and where employed, and including such records
and tables of vital and health statistics and such other information
and recommendations as it may deem necessary or advisable.
The Board of Health is hereby authorized to
make contracts, as occasions arise, in the name of the City, for the
removal and disposal of all garbage and to assume and exercise supervision
and control over the dump or dumps where collections of all house
dirt, ashes, waste and rubbish from estates within the City are deposited.
A.
No person, by himself, his servants or agents shall
place or deposit or cause to be placed or deposited any paper, house
dirt, ashes, filth or any kind of refuse or rubbish in or on any public
street or place or in or on any private way, lot or other place or
within five feet of a fire hydrant, excepting such places as have
been set aside and designated as a public dump, unless such person
shall have first obtained permission therefor from the Board of Health.
[Amended 2-27-1996 by Doc. 39]
B.
Any person who violates this section may be prosecuted
under the provisions of MGL c. 270, § 16, and punished by
a fine of not more than $5,500 for the first offense and not more
than $15,000 for each subsequent offense and may be ordered to remove
said papers, house dirt, ashes, filth or any kind of refuse or rubbish
at his own expense. This section may also be enforced by the provisions
of MGL c. 270, § 16A, in a noncriminal proceeding.[1]
[Added 2-7-1989 by Doc. 26-B; amended 7-10-2007 by Doc. 76]
C.
When refuse in the form of discarded newspapers is
placed within the vicinity of the curb for pickup, collection or recycling
by the City of Haverhill or by any person or corporation designated
by the City in place thereof, any person, other than the owner, lessee,
occupant or representative of the Haverhill Highway Department, who
picks up, carries away or takes possession of said refuse, without
authority, shall be fined $300.
[Added 6-13-1995 by Doc. 99; amended 7-10-2007 by Doc. 76]
It shall be the duty of the Police Department
to report to the Board of Health or its agent all violations of such
rules and regulations as shall come to its notice and to see that
such rules and regulations are enforced and obeyed.
