, 1899-03-20
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Senate File No. 25.
BOARDS OF HEALTH,

BOARDS OF HEALTH.
An Act for the preservation of the public health, providing for County,
City and Town boards of health, for guarantees, defining nuis-
ances and offensive trades, and regulating them, and for other
purposes.
BE it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section L. In every county the Board of County Com
mlssloners shall be the Board of Health; the President of
the Board of Commissioners shall be the President of the
Board of Health, and the County Clerk shall be the Clerk of
said Board; the Mayor and City Council of each incorporated
city shall constitute the Board of Health for such city; and
the resident and Trustees of each Incorporated town in
this State shall constitute the Board of Health for such
OF Trustees in each town shall be President of the Board of
Health in said city or town; the Clerk of each city and town
shall be the Clerk of the Board of Health for such city or
town; the Clerk OF the Board of Health in each county. city
and town shall keep a record of the proceedings of the
Board, in a book to be provided for that purpose.
Sec. 3. Every Board of Health shall appoint and con.
stanty have a health officer, who shall be a competent prac.
ticing physician, and shall act as the sanitary adviser and
executive officer of the board. The Board of Health shall
establish the salary or other compensation of such sanitary
adviser, and shall regulate and audit and pay all fees and
charges charges OF persons employed by them in the execution of the
Board may be called by the order of the President or by any
two members of said Board.
Sec. 3. The Board of Health shall make such regula-
tiOns respecting nuisances, sources of filth and causes of
sickness within their respective jurisdictions as they shall
judge necessary for the public health and safety, and if any
person shall violate any such regulations he shall forfeit n
sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered in
an action by such county, city or town, the funds realized to
be used in carrying on the duties and regulations of said
Board of Health, the amount of such recovery to be fixed at
the discretion of the Justice or jury trying and deciding the
matter.
Sec. 4. The said Board of Health shall also make such
regulations as they may deem necessary for the public
health and safety respecting any articles which are capable
OF containing or conveying any infection or contagion, or
OF creating any sickness, when such articles shall be brought
into or conveyed from their county, city or town, and if any
person shall violate any such regulation he shall forfeit a
sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered and
used as heretofore provided in this Act.
Sec. 5. The said Board shall also make all regulations
which they may deem necessary for the interment of the
dead and respecting burying grounds for their counties
cities or towns.
Sec. 6. Notice shall be given by the Board of Health Of
all regulations made by them, by publishing the same in
some newspaper of the county, if there be one published
therein, and if not, then by posting them up in five public
places in such county, city or town, and such notice of said
regulations shall be deemed legal notice to all persons.
Sec. Z. The Board of Health shall examine into all
nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness that may
in their opinion be injurious to the health of the inhab
itants within their County, City or Town, and shall cause
the same to be destroyed, removed or prevented, as the case
may require.
Sec. 8. Whenever any such nuisance. source of filth OIL
cause of sickness shall be found on private property, the
Board of Health shall order the owner or occupant thereof
at his own expense to remove the same within twenty-fOul
hours, and if the owner or occupant shall neglect SO to Dc
he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, tt
be recovered and used as in this Act heretofore provided.
Sec. Q. If the owner or occupant shall not comply witt
such order of the Board of Health, such Board may cause
said nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness to be re
moved, and all expenses incurred thereby shall be paid by
the said owner or occupant, OR by such other person as shall
have caused or permitted the same, and such expenses may
be recovered in addition to the said forfeit and in the same
manner.
Sec. 10. Whenever any person shall be convicted or
an Indictment for a common nuisance that may be injurious
to the public health, the court may in it's discretion order
it to be removed or destroyed at the expense of the defend
ant, under the direction of the Board of Health of the Coun
ty, City or Town where the nuisance is found, and the form
Of the warrant to the Sheriff or other officer may be varied
accordingly.
Sec. II. Whenever the Board of Health shall think il
necessary for the preservation of the lives or health of the
inhabitants to enter any building in their County, City oil
Town, for the purposes of examining into and destroying
removing or preventing any nuisance source of filth or cause
of sickness, and shall be refused such entry, any member O
the Board may make complaint under oath before any Jus
tce of the Peace Of his County, whether such Justice be
member Of such Board or not, stating the facts Of the cas-,
so far as he has knowledge thereof.
Sec. II. Such Justice may thereupon issue 8 warran
directed to the Sheriff or any Constable of the County com
handing him to take sufficient aid, and being accompanied
by any two or more members of said Board of Health, be
tween the hours of sunrise and sunset and repair to tn,
place where such nuisance, source of filth or cause Of sick
ness complained Of may be, and the same destroy, remove O.
prevent, under direction Of such members Of the Board o
Health.
Sec. 10. The Board Of Health may grant permits TO
the removal Of any nuisance, infected article or sick persol
within the limits Of their County, City or Town, when the.
shall, think II safe and proper 10 to do.
Bee. II. When any person coming from abroad or n
sidiIIg In any County, City or Town within this State shall
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