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Elyria, OH Code of Ordinances
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF ELYRIA, OHIO
DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS (2024)
PRELIMINARY UNIT
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ELYRIA, OHIO
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
TITLE ONE - General Provisions
TITLE THREE - Legislative
TITLE FIVE - Administrative
TITLE SEVEN - Boards and Commissions
TITLE NINE - Judicial
TITLE ELEVEN - Taxation
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
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.)
157.03 ORDERS AND REGULATIONS.
   The Board of Health shall have power to make and pass all such orders and regulations as it deems necessary and proper for the public health and for the prevention of disease. Such orders and regulations when adopted shall have all the force and effect of ordinances of Council.
(R.O. 1946, C.16, Sec. 4.)
157.04 RESISTING HEALTH OFFICER.
   No person shall resist, hinder, delay or obstruct any health officer of the City in the performance of or in his attempt to perform any of the duties imposed upon him by ordinance or by the orders of the Mayor or Council, or by the orders or regulations of the Board of Health.
(Ord. 1-58. Passed 3-3-58.)
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