CHAPTER 157
Department of Health
157.01   Establishment of Board.
157.02   Powers generally.
157.03   Orders and regulations.
157.04   Resisting health officer.
157.05   Incineration of infectious waste.
157.06   Stipend for attendance at Board meetings.
157.99   Penalty.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   Health district - see CHTR. § 11.01
   Rabies quarantine - see Ohio R.C. 955.26
   Powers and nuisances - see Ohio R.C. 3707.01 et seq.; 3709.36
   Enforcement of orders - see Ohio R.C. 3707.02, 3707.48 et seq.; 3707.99(c)
   Quarantine and communicable diseases - see Ohio R.C. 3707.04 et seq.
   Inspection of food and food products - see Ohio R.C. 3707.33 et seq.
   Duties and salaries of employees - see Ohio R.C. 3709.16
   Travel expenses - see Ohio R.C. 3709.17
   Record of proceedings and diseases - see Ohio R.C. 3709.19
   Health, safety and sanitation - see GEN. OFF. Ch. 521
157.01 ESTABLISHMENT OF BOARD.
   A Board of Health is hereby established.
(R.O. 1946, C.16, Sec. 2.)
157.02 POWERS GENERALLY.
   The Board of Health shall have power:
   (a)   To abate and remove all nuisances in the City and assess the costs and expense of the same upon the property wherein such nuisance is situated. Such assessment, when duly certified by the President of the Board to the County Auditor, shall become a lien upon such property to be collected the same as any other tax in favor of the City.
   (b)   To compel the proprietors or owners, agents or assignees, occupants or tenants of the lot or property, house or building, upon or in which any nuisance may be, to abate and remove the same.
   (c)   To regulate the construction and arrangements of all water closets and privy vaults and the emptying and cleaning of such vaults.
   (d)   To create a complete and accurate system of registration of births, deaths and interments occurring in the City for purposes of legal and genealogical investigations, and to furnish facts for statistical, scientific and particularly for sanitary inquiries.
(R.O. 1946, C.16, Sec. 3.)
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