(A) There are created the positions of Chief Health Inspector and Health Inspector.
(B) The Chief Health Inspector shall be a person who shall have had at least five years’ experience in handling animals, meats, game, fish, poultry, milk, and other food and dairy products.
(C) The Health Inspectors shall be appointed by the City Health Officer subject to confirmation by the Board of Health.
(D) The Inspectors shall devote their full time to the work of the Department.
(E) The Chief and other City Health Inspectors under him or her shall be under the general supervision and orders of the City Health Officer and in addition shall perform the following duties:
(1) Take frequent and careful samples of milk and dairy products, and of the city water supply and water from the swimming pools and beaches and deliver them to the city chemist for tests;
(2) Make careful examinations of all places and utensils where foods, liquors, and beverages are sold including hotels, inns, taverns, restaurants, soda fountains, stores, and other places where food, liquors, and beverages are sold or served;
(3) Inspect all streets, alleys, vacant lots, yards, and outbuildings, and other public places in matters concerning their sanitary condition;
(4) Inspect all public buildings as to their ventilation, plumbing, and general sanitary conditions;
(5) Enter markets, stores, packing houses, or any place where food products are stored, held for sale, or offered for sale, and inspect any vehicle transporting meat, fish, game, or poultry from one point to another or through the city;
(6) Enter and examine ice houses and refrigerators in hotels, restaurants, and boarding houses; and
(7) Enter and examine, under the orders of the City Health Officer, any dairy farm or milk products plant.
(Prior Code, § 32.057)