Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-25
HBALTHORD[NANCE.
by the Common Council of the City of St.
Paul, October 16, 1888.
ORDINANCE No. 355.

An ordinance creating a Board OF
Health and defining their powers and
duties.
The Common Council OF the City OF
Saint Paul do ordain as follows:
S3g 1. That there IS hereby established
& Board of Health as follows: The Presi-
dent of the Council shall at the first meet
ing OF the Council in June in each wear
appoint four aldermen who together with
the City Engineer and Health Officer as
hereinafter provided shall constitute a
Board of Health.
Sec. 2. On the first meeting OF the
Common Council in the month of June of
each alternate year, shall be appointed one
Health Officer, who shall hold his Office for
two years, and until his successor shall be
appointed and qualified. Before entering
Rpon the duties of his Office he shall take
the usual oath of Office and give bond with
security to the satisfaction of the Com
mOn Council in the sum of one thousand
dollars for the faithful performance of his
duties, and shall receive such
compensation as the Council
May determine.
Sec. 3. majority of the members of
the Board shall eon7titute quorum for
DNo1A0o5 no GOdIQ OI hSalEU S061t
meet at 5 o'clock p. m. on the Monday
preceding the first Council meeting of
each month, in the Council chamber at the
City Hall, at which meeting the Health
Officer shall preside.
See. (. Special meetings may be called
b. -hs President of the Board of Health
whsH ne may deem it necessary.
Sc. 5. The City Clerk shall be secre-
tary of the Board of Health.
SEC. 6. The Board of Health shall exer-
else a general supervision over the health
OF the city, with full power TO take all
ste p5 and use all measures necessary to
promote the cleanliness and salubrity
thereof; to prevent the Introduction into
the city of malignant, contagious or in
fectious diseases, and to remove or other
wise take care of any person attacked by
any such disease, and to adopt in
reference to such persons any
regulations, restrictions or measures deem
cd advisable and to establish rules for
the government of the city pest house and
quarantine hospital.
Sec. z. The Health Officer shall have
and exercise general supervision over
the sanitary condition of the city.
Sec. 8. He shall give the Mayor, the
Common Council and the Board of Health
all such professional advice and informa-
ton as they may require, with view to
the preservation of the public health, and
whenever he shall hear of the existence of
any malignant, contagious, or pestilen-
tial disease, he shall investigate the same
and adopt measures to arrest its progress.
Sec. Q. 1t shall be the further duty OF
the Health Officer to enforce all the laws of
the state and ordinances of the city in rela-
ton to the sanitary regulations of the city,
and Gauss all nuisances to be abated with
all reasonable promptness. And for the pur-
pose of carrying out the foregoing re-
qUirements he shall be permitted at all
times, from the rising to the setting of the
sun, to entsr into any house, store, stable
or other building, and to cause the floors
to be raised, if he shall deem it necessary,
IN order to thorough examination OF Gel
lars, vaults, sinks or drains, and to cause
all privies to be cleansed and kept in good
condition, and 20 cause all dead animals or
other nGuseous or unwholesOme things or
substances to be buried or removed or
disposed of as the Health Officer may
direct.
Sec. 10. In order to the carrying out of
the provisions of the foregoing section, it
shall be the duty of the Health Officer TO
serve or cause to be served a notice, in
writing, upon the owner, occupant or agent
of any lot, building or premises in or upon
which any nuisance may be found
or who may be the owner or cause of any
such nuisance requiring them to abate the
same in such manner as he shall prescribe
and within the time named in said notice,
provided that it shall not be necessary in
any case for the Health Officer to specify
IN his notice the manner in which any
nuisance shall be abated, unless he shall
deem it advisable so to do; and such notice
may be given or served by any officer or
person who may be directed or deputed to
give or make the same; and if such owner,
occupant or agent shall neglect or refuse
to comply with the requirements of such
order within the time specified, they shall
be subject to the penalty hereinafter de-
scribed, and it shall be the duty of said
officer to proceed at once, upon the ex-
piration of the time specified in said
notice, to cause such nuisance to be abat-
ed; and provided, further, that whenever
the owner, occupant or agent of premises,
IN or upon which any nuisance may be
found, is unknown or cannot be found, the
said Health Officer shall proceed to abate
the same without notice; and in either
case the expense of such abatement shall
be collected from the person or persons
who may have created, continued and suf-
fered such nuisance to exist
Sec II. The Health Officer shall have
the power to appoint with the consent of
the Board OF Health and approval of Com
mon Council suoh assistants as may be
necessary to enforce the sanitary laws and
ordinances of the City of st. Paul. Said
assistants shall be known as Assistant
Health Inspectors.
They shall be commissioned and qualify
as special policemen and shall have the
power to arrest, when necessary, any per-
SOD violating any of the sanitary laws or
regulations of said city.
Said Assistant Health Inspectors shall
be under the supervision of the Heal h
Officer and shall obey all orders from him
or from the Board of Health through him.
They shall report daily to the Health
Officer in person and shall present to said
Health Officer at the end of each month a
written report of their labor during that
month in such a manner as he may direct.
Sec. I2. The Health Officer shall have
the power to remove at any time any
Assistant Health Inspector, person or
persons who may be in the employ of the
Board of Health, or cause to be revoked
the lIcspsa Of any scavenOer wheuever