(A) Board of Health; Health Officer. A Board of Health consisting of three members shall be appointed annually by the Council. One member shall be designated as the City Health Officer and executive of the Board.
(B) Meetings of Board. The Board of Health shall meet at the beginning of each quarter of the calendar year on such day as it may fix and shall hold special meetings upon the call of the Health Officer.
(C) Duties of Board. The Board of Health shall make investigations and reports and shall obey such directions concerning communicable diseases as the State Department of Health may require and shall enforce all laws concerning public health. The Board may employ medical and other assistance as it deems necessary for the control of communicable disease existing or threatened in the city or for carrying out lawful regulations and directions of the State Department of Health. All expenses thus properly incurred shall be paid and thereafter certified to the County Auditor for allowance and payment of one-half of the amount by the county as provided by law.
(D) Annual sanitary inspection. The Health Officer, or in the absence of action by the Health Officer, the Board of Health, shall order and cause a thorough inspection to be made in the month of May of each year by the constables or other law enforcement officers of the city of all public and private property in the city with respect to sanitation and disease. Notice of the order for inspection shall be given prior to May 1 in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or by posting a notice in five conspicuous places in the city, requiring all owners or occupants of premises to clean all yards, vaults, sewage disposal systems and buildings, and to remove or dispose of all trash, rubbish, garbage, ashes, dead animals, manure or other unwholesome substances in or on the premises, as well as accumulations of materials in or upon any public ways or places. Any such substances found upon inspection at that time or any other time during the year may be ordered removed by the Health Officer or the Board of Health within the time as he, she or it specifies, and he or she or the Board may cause removal thereof to be made at the expense of the property owner upon failure to comply with the order or orders and the expels shall be a lien upon the property and may be collected as a special assessment. A report of the inspection shall be made to the Council by June 1 following and a copy thereof furnished to the State Department of Health by July 1 following.
(E) Other duties of Health Officer and Board. The health officer shall execute all lawful orders of the Board of Health and State Department of Health, and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law. He or she and members of the Board of Health, their agents or deputies, shall have access to all premises within the city for the purpose of inspection for sanitary or health purposes. The Health Officer shall take all steps required to prevent or abate public health nuisances or unwholesome conditions, including, without limitation, any causing disease or its spread or contamination or pollution of drinking water or foods. The Health Officer is empowered on the direction of the Board, or at his or her own discretion, from time to time to take and examine samples of milk and milk products and other food products sold in the city.
(F) Compensation. The Health Officer shall receive compensation for his or her services as may be fixed by resolution of the Council.
(Ord. 18, passed 9-18-1950; Ord. passed 6-19-1961) Penalty, see § 30.99