(a) Membership. The Mayor together with the Commissioners shall be the Board of Health and shall prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary from time to time to protect the public health of the city.
(b) Chairperson - inspection authority. The Mayor shall be ex officio Chairperson of the Board of Health and shall be authorized and empowered to enforce all sanitary laws applicable to the city and for that purpose to enter into any shop, house, building, cellar, room or other place, whether public or private, within the city, to see that the health regulations and rules are carried out.
(2010Code, § 8-101)