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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.)
157.05 INCINERATION OF INFECTIOUS WASTE.
   Pursuant to H.B. 150, as amended, the City shall implement a program to levy a fee upon infectious waste incinerators which dispose of environmental waste. Such fee is provided in Section 109.03(b)(17) and will be monitored and collected by the Health Department.
(Ord. 94-22. Passed 2-7-94.)
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