[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Branchville
5-18-83 as Ord. No. 4-83. Amendments noted where applicable.]
There shall be a Board of Health of the Borough consisting of five members.
A.
The members constituting the Board of Health shall be
citizens of the Borough appointed by the Borough Council. Nothing herein contained
shall prohibit one or more members of the Borough Council or the Mayor from
being appointed to the Board.
B.
The first two members appointed to the Board shall serve
a term of three years from the date of their appointment. The next two members
appointed to the Board shall serve a term of two years from the date of their
appointment. The next member appointed to the Board shall serve a term of
one year from the date of appointment. Following the expiration of the initial
term, all terms shall be for a period of three years from the date of appointment.
All Board members shall serve until a successor has been qualified.
C.
If any vacancies occur among the members of the Board
of Health, they shall be filled by the Borough Council but only for the unexpired
portion of the term.
The Board shall not appoint any person as Health Officer, Public Health
Laboratory Technician, Sanitary Inspector, Food and Drug Inspector, Milk Inspector,
Meat Inspector or Plumbing Inspector, nor employ a person to do work ordinarily
performed by them, who is not the holder of a proper license as such.
The appointees, agents and officers of the Board of Health shall hold
their offices during the term for which they are appointed and shall not be
removed except for cause, after an opportunity has been given to them for
a hearing by the Borough Council, and/or for economic considerations.
A.
The Board of Health shall adopt bylaws governing its
procedural operation. It shall elect a President and Vice President from among
its members and create and fill such other offices as it shall determine.
The Secretary of the Board need not be a member of the Board of Health. It
shall have the power and authority to employ experts and a staff for enforcement
and carrying out of its purposes, including a sanitarian and other persons
provided by law, and to pay for their services and such other expenses as
may be necessary and proper, not exceeding in all the amount appropriated
by the Borough for the use of the Board of Health.
B.
The Board of Health shall have the powers and perform
the duties prescribed by law and by municipal ordinance. It shall be the duty
of the Board of Health to enforce all ordinances of the Borough which relate
to public health and public health nuisances.
C.
The Board of Health shall make all necessary
rules and regulations for the protection of the health of the inhabitants
of the Borough and to guard against the spread of contagious diseases and
to prevent by necessary rules the introduction of diseases, contagious or
otherwise, within the boundaries of the Borough.
