Chapter 2.30
BOARD OF HEALTH
Sections:
2.30.020 Health officer designated.
2.30.030 Health officer – Duties.
2.30.040 Deputy health officer.
2.30.010 Board created.
The council shall constitute the board of health of the city. (Code 1997 § 2-3-1).
2.30.020 Health officer designated.
The council shall appoint one physician to be and act as health officer of this city, and to hold such office during its pleasure. The health officer shall be the executive officer of the board of health. (Code 1997 § 2-3-2).
2.30.030 Health officer – Duties.
It shall be the duty of the health officer to exercise a strict supervision over the sanitary conditions of the city, to report to the council all nuisances as elsewhere provided in this code, and to report the spread of prevalence of any contagious or infectious disease, or other matters that may be or become detrimental to the public health. (Code 1997 § 2-3-3).
2.30.040 Deputy health officer.
The health officer of this city hereby is authorized and empowered to appoint one or more, but in any event no more than two, deputies to hold their offices during the pleasure of said health officer. Such appointment or appointments shall be made only with the consent of the board of health. Only the health officer shall exercise supervisory powers entrusted to him by this chapter over sanitary conditions of the city; and, toward that end, action at law or in equity to abate or cause to be abated such nuisances as elsewhere provided in this code shall be brought only upon the relation of said health officer. However, any deputy of said health officer hereby is empowered to direct by appropriate administrative order, in the name of said health officer, the abatement of such nuisances or the doing of anything reasonably necessary to cause an abatement thereof; and any such deputy also is empowered hereby to report to the council all nuisances, and to report the spread or prevalence of any contagious or infectious disease, or other matters that may be or become detrimental to the public health, and to the conduct investigations and make inquiries appropriate to those ends. (Code 1997 § 2-3-4).