There shall be a board of health which shall consist of three members appointed in accordance with the provisions of General Law, Chapter 111, Section 26. The term of office of members of the Board of Health shall be three years. The term of one member shall expire annually.
The Board of Health shall annually, as soon after the first
Monday of February (as practical), meet and organize by the choice
of a Chairman and of a Clerk who may not be a member of the Board;
it may make such rules and regulations for its own government and
the government of all subordinate officers in the department as it
may deem expedient. A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum.
A full and complete record shall be kept of all votes and acts
of the Board and all expenditures of public money which may at any
time be examined by the Mayor.
[Ord. of 2-26-2002]
The Board of Health may exercise all the powers vested in the
Board of Health under the law or prescribed to it by law and shall
perform such duties as the City Council by ordinance may from time
to time prescribe. The Board of Health may make reasonable health
regulations not inconsistent with law. Whoever violates any reasonable
regulation of the Board of Health made under the authority of this
section, for which no penalty by way of fine or imprisonment or both,
is provided by law, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.[1]
[Ord. of 11-27-1984]
There shall be a Director of Health-Sanitarian, who shall be
appointed by the Mayor for a five-year term. Said Director of Health-Sanitarian
shall be compensated according to the compensation plan. The Director
of Health-Sanitarian shall act as the agent for the Board of Health
and shall perform such duties and have such powers as the Board of
Health shall direct. Said Director of Health-Sanitarian shall not
be subject to the provisions of Chapter 31 of the General Laws.
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Editor's Note: An ordinance enacted 4-28-1981, and effective
7-1-1981, repealed former §§ 2-102.1 and 2-102.1a,
concerning the Housing Code Inspector and inspection of rental dwelling
units by him, deriving from ordinances of 2-8-1966, 12-11-1973, and
3-14-1978.
[4-12-1966]
The Board of Health shall exact from each applicant for a license
or permit it is empowered and authorized to issue the sum of $1 upon
the filing of the application therefor; except, that such other fee
or no fee as may be otherwise provided by statute, these Revised Ordinances
or other ordinances of the City, shall not be in any way affected
or controlled by this section.
All fees for licenses and permits issued by the Board of Health
shall be paid to the City Treasury.
