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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0070�0 ORDINANCE N0. 70. AN ORDINANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE CITY OF BURLINGAME AND THE CREATION AND APPOINTMENT OF A BOARD OF HEALTH AND HEALTH INSPECTOR AND DEFINING THE DUTIES OF SAME. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOINS:— Section No. 1. The Board of Trustees of the City of Burlingame do hereby create in and for the City df Burlingame a Board of Health of five (5) citizens of the City of Burlingame to be known as the Board of Health, two of which shall be physicians; Section No. 2. Said Board shall be appointed by the President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Burlingame and shall hold office for a period of four (4) years from and after the date of their appointments; provided, however, that the first Board shall so classify themselves by lot that three will go out of office at the end of the second year and two at the end of the fourth year; Section No. 3. The President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Burlingame shall at the first regular monthly meeting in the month of July of each and every year appoint such citizens to fill such vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of such offices as he shall determine and in the event a vacancy occurs for any other reason than the expiration of the term of office, he shall appoint such citizen or citizens to fill the unexpired term or terms of such office as he shall so determine. Section No. 4. The Board of Health shall have the power to devise ways and means and enforce same as will, in their judgment, best promote the health of the City and rrevent the spread of disease; to enter into and examine in the daytime houses, stores, vehicles and places in the City, to prevent and forbid communication with infected families or houses; to recommend to the Board of Trustees in meeting l._ C whenever they deem it necessary such sanitary measures as they may agree upon as advisable and to co-operate with them in carrying the same into effect; Section No. 5. The Board of Trustees of the City of Burlin- game do create as a subordinate office to the City of Burlingame as a co-operative agency to the Board of Health the office of Health Inspector. Section No. 6. It shall be the duty of said Health Inspector immediately after his appointment, to make a systematic and thorough examination of all parts of the City where any noxious or offensive substances are supposed to exist, and for this purpose he shall be permitted, in the daytime, to enter any house, store, stable or other building, for the purpose of examining cellarsip vaults, sinks, drains, or cess pools; and it is hereby made the duty of said Health Officer to enter on all grounds, premises or lots where offensive or noxious substances are to be kept; and all pools, sinks, vaults, drains, or low grounds to be cleansed, fulled up or otherwise im- proved; require all privies to be chi and kept in good condition; to require the use of such disinfectants and in such quantities as the Board of Health may direct, and to cause all dead animals or other nauseous and unwholesome substances to be buried ore removed beyong the limits of the City. It shall be his duty to notify the occupant (if any) or owner, or agent of any lot, building or premises upon which any offensive substnaees may be found, requiring them to remove the same forthwith; and should he deem it necessary he may specify how said premises shall be cleansed or purified; and should the same not be done forthwith, or if the owner or occupant cannot be found, he shall cause the same to be done at the expense of the City, keeping an account of said expense, which he shall collect, by suit if necessary, against the occupant, owner, or agent, in the name of the City, as for money paid at his or their request; and he shall also act as agent of said Board of Health in carrying out their instructions. C e Section No. 7. Whenever any case of contagious disease shall have been reported to the Board of Health it shall be their duty to ?^O'VA %ar notify the Health 0��, who shall immediately put up on the prem— ises rem ices so infected a public notice of the existence of said disease in ouch form as the Board of Health may determined; and it shall be the duty of the'occupant of said premises to Bee that said notice remains where the same shall have been posted by said Health Of:f c' r until removed by him , or his order. Section No. 9. The word year within the meaning of this ordi— nance is from July 1st to July 1st. Section No. 9. Any person, firm or.corporation violating any provision of this ordinance shall be fined in a sum not less than Twenty (20.00) Dollars or more than Two Hundred ($P-00.00) Dollars or by imprisonment in the City Hail not exceeding ten (10) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section No. 10. This ordinance shall belazblished for two (2) successive publications in the Burlingame Advance, a newspaper pub— lashed in said City. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced this li"day of September, 1913, and duly and regularly passed OV thisy day of September, 19132 by the Board of Trustees of the City of Burlingame, by the following vote, to -wit: - AYES, Trustees: ��_a't&V — NOES, Trustees: ABSENT, Trustees:_ FI LBB i' 3-0 1913 J. R. MURPHY. CITY CLERK. —TT- idem of the C Attest: f (% City C rk.� the Bo of steel of Burlin Ram Cal, n