[CC 1992 §205.010; Ord. No. 29 §1, 9-8-1958; Ord.
No. 463 §a, 9-6-1994]
A Board of Health for the City is hereby established to be composed
of the Chief of Police, one (1) regularly licensed practicing physician,
and one (1) or more individuals, but no more than a Board of five
(5) persons by and with the consent of the Board of Aldermen, and
shall be known as Health Officers. Said Health Officers shall receive
reasonable compensation for his/her services in the performance of
his/her duties. Said compensation or fees shall be audited, allowed
and paid as other claims against the City.
[CC 1992 §205.020; Ord. No. 29 §2, 9-8-1958]
The general duties of the said Board of Health shall be to exercise
a general supervision over the sanitary condition of the City and
have general supervision over the public health in said City and within
the quarantine jurisdiction of the City and see that all laws and
regulations pertaining to the public health and sanitary conditions
of the City are enforced and with the same powers as the State Board
of Health.
[CC 1992 §205.030; Ord. No. 29 §3, 9-8-1958]
Said Board is hereby empowered and authorized to make all necessary
rules and regulations concerning health, sanitation, quarantine of
infectious and contagious diseases as are necessary and reasonable;
and shall make and enforce adequate orders, findings, rules and regulations
to prevent the spread of infectious, contagious, communicable or dangerous
diseases, and shall make such orders and regulations as will prevent
the entrance of said types of dangerous diseases into the City.
[CC 1992 §205.040; Ord. No. 29 §4, 9-8-1958]
Whenever any infectious, contagious or communicable disease
exists within the City, or within five (5) miles thereof, to such
an extent as to endanger the health and lives of the public generally,
the Health Officers may quarantine any part or the whole of the City
or any public or private schools, amusement halls, picture shows and
other public gathering places which shall be necessary to prevent
the spread of such disease.
[CC 1992 §205.050; Ord. No. 29 §4, 9-8-1958]
The Board of Health shall have power and authority to inspect
hotels, inns, boardinghouses and other houses, buildings or places
for the purpose of determining the sanitary conditions thereof or
in relation to any contagious, infectious or communicable disease.
Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the said Board of Health
that any place within its jurisdiction is infected with any contagious,
infectious or communicable disease, they shall have power and authority
to issue a proclamation naming the place to which any provisions of
this Section shall apply.
[CC 1992 §205.060; Ord. No. 29 §5, 9-8-1958]
It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to transport
any person or personal baggage or household goods from any place as
specified by proclamation aforesaid during the time mentioned in said
proclamation, and it shall be the duty of the Board to cause notice
to any common carrier of the place from which they shall not transport
persons, baggage or household goods, and it shall thereafter and during
the time specified by the Board be unlawful for the carrier to transport
any such persons or property knowing that said person, persons or
property are from the infected place so named.
[CC 1992 §205.070; Ord. No. 29 §6, 9-8-1958]
Whenever any person who shall have been exposed to any contagious
disease, infectious or communicable disease shall enter the City,
it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to convey him/her to such
place as may be provided by the Board of Health and there to remain
until ordered discharged by the said Board.
[CC 1992 §205.080; Ord. No. 29 §7, 9-8-1958]
The Board shall, when necessary, provide a "temporary
hospital" where all persons affected by any contagious disease,
when deemed necessary by the Board, shall be treated and provided
for at the expense of the City; provided, that nothing in this Section
shall require any person in the City to be treated in or conveyed
to such temporary hospital if such person shall be able to pay for
suitable treatment at his/her home and shall prevent all persons from
coming in contact with such contagious disease or entering his/her
premises.
[CC 1992 §205.090; Ord. No. 29 §8, 9-8-1958]
The Board shall cause any avenue, street, alley, or any other
passageway to be fenced or otherwise closed if it believes the public
safety requires it and may adopt all such measures and regulations
as may be necessary to prevent any person from going to any part of
the City so inclosed by them.
[CC 1992 §205.100; Ord. No. 29 §9, 9-8-1958]
The Board may, upon notice and hearing, direct the destruction
of any putrid food, clothing, hides, skins or any other article dangerous
to the public health.
[CC 1992 §205.110; Ord. No. 29 §10, 9-8-1958]
All garbage from kitchens, stores, bakeries, restaurants or
other places shall be burned, buried, disinfected or be kept in tightly
closed metal cans and shall be removed often enough to prevent disagreeable
odors.
[CC 1992 §205.120; Ord. No. 29 §11, 9-8-1958]
All dogs, cats or other pets infected or exposed to any dangerous
or contagious disease shall be restrained or ordered killed by the
Chief of Police when directed by said Board.
[CC 1992 §205.130; Ord. No. 29 §12, 9-8-1958]
The Board shall have and exercise such control and supervision
over public and private schools within the City and over all teachers,
pupils and employees thereof as may be necessary to prevent the introduction
or spread of contagious, infectious or communicable disease among
the public thereof, and every physician shall report to said Board
as provided in this Section any family or member thereof affected
with any contagious, infectious or communicable disease, and said
Board shall cause all children of such family to be forthwith removed
from such schools until, in the opinion of the Board of Health or
its representative, such disease is thoroughly eradicated and to take
any other action that may be necessary to protect school children.
[CC 1992 §205.140; Ord. No. 29 §13, 9-8-1958]
Whenever the Board of Health determines that any building, room
or place should be disinfected, and the owner or person in charge
of the premises refuses to disinfect said premises as directed by
said Board and fully comply with his/her orders, the Board shall submit
such facts to the Mayor who shall make an examination into the matter
and determine whether such place is infected, and if he/she so finds,
it shall be the duty of the Mayor, by written order, to appoint some
competent person to disinfect the same in a proper manner, using force
if necessary, and any person who shall interfere with the performance
of the duties required of him/her by said order shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor. The owner of the premises or the person having care
thereof shall pay the costs of said disinfection.
[CC 1992 §205.150; Ord. No. 303 §1, 7-16-1979]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Chapter shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction of violation
of any of the above Sections of this Chapter, be punished by a fine
of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than five hundred dollars
($500.00) and/or by imprisonment in the County Jail or City Jail for
not less than one (1) day or more than ninety (90) days.
