The Board of Health shall appoint for full or part-time service a Health Commissioner and may appoint such public health nurses, clerks, physicians and other persons as it deems necessary. The Board may also appoint as many persons for sanitary duty as in its opinion the public health and sanitary conditions of the City require. Such persons shall have general police powers and be known as sanitary police. Council may determine the maximum number of sanitary police and public health nurses to be appointed.
(1969 Code Sec. 98.05)