(A) Whenever the Board of Public Health and the City Health Officer determine that there exists a prevalence of venereal disease inimical to the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the city or that the situation is causing economic interference with industry or with any other phase of public welfare, the Board of Public Health or City Health Officer may request of the Common Council and the Mayor an appropriation from the General Fund of the city for the prevention and control of venereal disease and for the hospitalization and quarantine of venereal disease cases for the support and maintenance of a program for the prevention and control of the disease if the Health Officer and Board of Health may deem it necessary and expedient. The City Health Officer shall transmit the request in writing to the President of the Common Council who shall present it at the next meeting of the Common Council. The Common Council may appropriate out of any money which may be available from the General Fund of the city an amount as it shall deem necessary and advisable to carry out properly the program for the prevention and control of venereal disease.
(B) Any sum of money so appropriated shall be set aside in a special fund to be known as the Board of Health—Venereal Disease Prevention and Control Fund. The Board of Health shall have full and complete authority to expend the funds when appropriated.
(C) There may also be levied annually by the Common Council for the control and prevention of venereal diseases, a tax of not more than $0.03 on each $100, or another amount as set by the city from time to time, of taxable property in the city as the same appears on the tax duplicate, which shall be in addition to other taxes of the city, for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Any unexpended balance remaining in the Fund at the end of the fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund but shall remain in the special fund.
(D) Warrants for expenditures for the prevention of venereal disease shall be drawn by the City Controller upon a voucher of the Board of Health in the same manner as expenditures are made from the Board of Health General Fund.
(Prior Code, § 91.059) Penalty, see § 91.9999