The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-14

d1spursmg oncer OF tire TOWNSHIP, ana m -rHse,
because OF any emergency or of any special need
Tor the protection of the public health, said board
shall consider the expenditure OF greater sum
necessary, the board shall so certify to the town
ship committee, and with their consent and ap-
proyal may incur such further expense as said
committee may authorize, and If the funds at the
disposal of the township committee are not suffi-
cient to cover such expenditure the committee is
hereby authorized to borrow money for the pur-
pose on the credit of the township and is directed
TO place the amount In the next annual tax levy.
and with the money so raised to pay the debt SO
incurred
A. And be it enacted, That in every township in
which the state board of health shall by vote and
notice thereof to the township committee declare
said township to need more sanitary oversight,
the township board of health shall appoint a
health inspector, who shall be paid not less than
fifty dollars year for his services and as much in
addition within the amount which the said board
of health are 1hereinbefore authorized to spend as
said board shall deem necessary or expedient.
5. And be it enacted, That the right of sanitary
inspection of all persons and articles in transpcJ
taton through the state, or of the cars, boats or
other vehicles carrying them, shall be lawful to
be performed by the state board of health, its
rotary, or its duly authorized inspectors agents.
and that they shall have the rights of inspec-
ton, procedure and control as would be and are
had by the board Of health of any county, town.
ship, city or other form of corporate government
in which said transporting agent or agencies
might be; and In the case of any epidemic be-
Z coming so serious or threatening as in the judg-
ment of said board TO require such measures, said
state board may require the examination of YES
sells, cars boats or other vehicles and of baggage
and persons, and enforce such detention or dsin-
lection thereof as they shall publish and declare
the safety of the public to demand. y =
6. And be it enacted, That the state board of
health may, at an expense not to exceed two thou
sand dollars in any one year, appoint yearly or for
parts of year inspectors who may be assigned to
such duties astheinteress of public health in any
part of the state may require and may be ap-
pointed to aid in the execution of any of the laws
which the state board of health is now authorized
and directed to enforce and to make investigation
as to local epidemics, nuisances, needs for drain
age, neglects of sanitary laws, or as to the con-
dition of school houses, tenements manufactures
workshops, or public buildings belonging to the
state or any county city therein and as to those
employed in them. and the state board of health
and its agents shall have the same rights of in
spection that belong to local boards of health and
their inspectors under the laws of this state and
said inspectors shall be allowed compensation
and their actual travelling expenses from the
moneys appropriated to the state board of health
within the limit herein named, in quarterly pay
ments on the approval of their bills by the board
of health, signed by the president and secretary
the same to be paid by the treasurer of the state
on the warrant of the comptroller.
z. And be it enacted That to meet the addi-
tional expenses indicated in this act and for the
general purposes of securing care of the public
health an additional appropriation for the present
year of two thousand dollars is hereby made to
said state board of health the same to be PAYABLE
by bills audited by the board certified by the
president and secretary thereof and approved by
the governor, and in case any emergency of epi-
deic or of peril to the public health shall in the
Judgment of the state board of health require the
expenditure of larger amount the facts in evil
dence shall be presented to the governor, comp
troller and treasurer of the state and they may
authorize and approve such additional expendi-
ture as in their Judgment and that of the state
board of health the safety, health and life of citi
Z Zens of the state may demand.
s. And be it enacted. That nothing in this act
contained shall affect the powers of the board of
health in any county having county board of
health or in any city where the board of health is
not formed under the act entitled AN act con-
corning the protection of the public health and
the record of vital facts and statistics relating
thereto" approved March eleventh, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty.
9, And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect Immediately.
Approved April q, 1885.