(A) A majority of the board of health shall constitute a quorum and shall enact rules and regulations, having the force and effect of law, to safeguard the health of the people of the city, and prevent nuisances and unsanitary conditions, enforce the same, and provide fines and punishments for the violation thereof. The board of health shall have general supervision over the health of the city and is authorized to established quarantine limits within the city.
(B) The board of health shall have the power to designate health nuisances and to recommend to the city council that it authorize and institute proper proceedings for the abatement of the same. Such recommendations of the board of health for additional ordinances and for proceedings to abate health nuisances shall include all matters of health and sanitation of the city, including the removal of dead animals, the sanitary condition of the streets, alleys, vacant grounds, stockyards, cattle and hog pens, wells, cisterns, privies, water closets, cesspools and stables and all places not specified where filth, nuisances and offensive matter is kept or is liable to or does accumulate.
(C) The board of health shall have the power, when authorized by ordinance, to take appropriate action to suppress nuisances and to enforce all laws of the state and this Code and all other ordinances of the city relating to the same or to matters of health and sanitation in the city.
(1964 Code, § 12-3)
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Similar provisions, see Neb. RS 1943, § 16-238