Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-09-28
LAWS OF IOWA.
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CHAPTER 1O7.

Who Constitute the Board of Heath.
AN ACT constituting the Mayor and
and Council Of any Incorporated town
or city. or the Trustees OF any Town
ship not Incorporated, a Board of
Health, aud defining their powers.
SECTION !. BE IL enacted by The GEN
erdt Assembly of the State of Iotcd, That
the Mayor and Council Of any incorpo-
rated town, or city, or Trustees of any
township not incorporated, shall be and
are hereby constituted Board of
Health. @
SEC. 2. The several Boards of Health
constituted by this Act shall have pow
er to make such regulations as they may
deem necessary for the public health
aud safety respecting nuisances, sources
of filth and causes of sickness within
their cities or towns. zras7... .s..s
SEC. 8. Notice shall be given by the
Board of health of all regulations made
by publishing the same i'm some news
paper of it's town, or, where there is no
newspaper, by posting i'm five public
places in the town. Such notice shall
he deemed legal notice to all persons.
SEC. 4. The, Board shall examine
into all nuisanccs sources of filth and
causes of sickness within its town or
city, and shall take immediate meas
ures to abate, remove, or prevent the
same wherever found. .-a.s
SEC. 5. The Board shall order the
owner or occupant, at his own expense,
to remove any nuisance, sources of filth
or cause of sickness found on private
property within such time as it deems
reasonable, and ii such person ncglects
to do SO he shall forfeit n sum of not ey-
ceeding twenty-five dollars for every
day during which he knowingly per-
Inits such nuisance or cause of sickness
70 remain after the time prescribed for
the removal thereof.
SEC. 6. Such notice shall be made in
writing and served by the Marshal OF
tue town or city, or by any Constable
ofthe town, in the usual way of serv-
ing notices in civil suits.
SEC. I. If the owner or occupant
fails to comply with such order, the
Board may cause the nuisance, source
offilth, OF cause of sickness, to he re-
moved, and all expenses incurred there.
10y shall be paid by such persons.
Sec. 8. Tbe Board shall have pow
or to make regulations in relation to
cleansing the streets, alleys, and drains
Of the city or town, in relation to com
nunication with houses where there Is
any contagious or infectious disease, to
establish pest houses or hospitals, and
when deemed cXpedient and necessary
to.prevent the spread of any contagious
disease, to remove to said pest house OF
hospital, any person sick with the Ash
attic or malignant cholera, or other ma
lgnant or infectious disease. To pro.
hibit or prevent all communication or
Intercourse by and with oil houses ter
cments, and places, and the persons oc-
cupying the same in which there shall
tie any person sick with any contagious,
malignant or infectious disease. To
employ all such persons as shall he nee
essary to carry into effect the regula-
lions adopted and published according
TO the powers vested in the Board by
this Act, and to nix their compensation,
10 employ physicians in case of poverty,
and to take such, general precautions
asid-actions rs 1t may deem necessary
for the public health.
SEC. D. Any person who shall will
fully violate any Of the regulations so
made and published by the Board Of
Health, shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanOr, and upon conviction thereof
shall be subject to a fine or imprison-
nlent, such tine not to exceed one hun
dred dollars, and such Imprisonment
not to exceed thirty days.
SEC. 10. All expenses incurred by
The several Boards of health i'm the exc
cution of this act shall be a charge up
OH their respective towns or cities, for
the purpose of defraying which II tax
may be levied bysuch Board of Health
upon the property in such town or city,
upon the valuation of property, at the
last assessment of such property suifi-
Gent to defray all expenses so incurred.
SEf, IL Ton InSS' notice of Sfich
levy shall he given i'm the manner pre-
scribed by law for the collection of tax
O., when it shall be the duty Of the
Marshal of such town or city to collect
the same, and pay it into the hands OF
the Treasurer Of the Board of Health.
81 Approved April I'd, 1866. sid. g.r