§ 17-116 Medical examiners' returns.

The department, from time to time may make rules and regulations fixing the time of rendering, and defining the form of returns and reports to be made to it by the chief medical examiner, in all cases of death which shall be investigated by him or her. The chief medical examiner shall conform to such rules and regulations.

§ 17-117 Removal of bodies.

   a.   It shall be the duty of the department upon receiving a certificate of death, made in accordance with its rules, to grant a permit for the removal from the city, of the body of the person described in such certificate if such body has not been buried.

   b.   It may grant a permit for the removal of the remains of any person interred within the city to a place without the city, on the application of a relative or friend of such person, when there shall appear to be no just objection to the same.

§ 17-118 Putrid cargoes, et cetera, may be destroyed.

The department, when it shall judge it necessary, may cause any cargo or part thereof, or any matter or thing within the city, that may be putrid or otherwise dangerous to the public health, to be destroyed or removed. Such removal, when ordered, shall be to such place as the department shall direct; such removal or destruction shall be made at the expense of the owner or owners of the property so removed or destroyed. Money expended for the same may be recovered from such owner or owners, in an action at law by the department.

§ 17-119 Drainage; orders therefor; maps.

   a.   Whenever in its opinion the protection of the public health requires the drainage of any lands in the city, by means other than sewers, the department may make an order describing the location of such lands, and directing the proper drainage thereof, and construction of drains therefor, by the commissioner of design and construction.

   b.   The department after making such order, shall cause a map to be made on which shall be shown the location of such proposed drains and the lands required for the construction thereof.

   c.   The order shall be entered at length in the records of the department and a copy thereof shall be delivered to the commissioner of design and construction.

   d.   The map shall be filed in the department. A copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the register or county clerk of the county in which the lands are situated; another copy thereof shall be filed with the borough president of the borough in which the lands are situated; another copy with the copy of the order shall be filed with the commissioner of design and construction, who shall immediately thereafter have the power, and is hereby directed to make and adopt proper and suitable plans for the construction of such drains.

Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/059.

§ 17-120 Orders for paving, et cetera, yards and cellars; notice.

An order for the paving, filling, concreting, draining or regulating of any yards or cellars within the city shall be made by the department only upon reasonable notice to the owner or agent thereof.