The City Physician shall be subject to the orders of the governing body by resolution and shall be under the immediate supervision of the City Administrator. The City Physician shall be a physician who resides permanently in the city. He or she shall be a member of the Board of Health of the city and shall be its medical adviser. When requested by the Mayor or City Attorney, he or she shall investigate all cases of injury to persons in which liability against the city may be asserted and make a written report thereof, including the circumstances causing the injury and the nature and extent of the injury. He or she shall perform such other duties of a medical and healthful nature as shall be assigned to him or her from time to time by the Mayor and Council. The City Physician shall receive as compensation for his or her services an amount set by ordinance of the City Council.
(2005 Code, § 1-316)