Newport daily independent., 1918-11-19
ORDNANCE NO. 2s7.

pOWtIS, anu duthViiey VI tHC Oiey Board of Health, of the City of New port, Arkansas, and Rules and Reg ulations regarding the same.
 Be It Ordained By The City Council
 of the City of Newport, Arkansas:
 Section l. The members of the City Board of Health as now constituted shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the City Council or until their successors are appointed.
 Section 2. The City Board of Health shall elect one of their mem bers as President of the Board and one as Secretary of the Board, and who shall hold their offices for term of one year from the date of their election, or until their successors are elected and qualified.
 Section B. The Cit Board of Health shall keep record of their proceedings and may make such by laws, rules and regulations for their own government and conduct of bus mess before them as they may deem necessary.
 | Section 8. The City Board of Health is hereby invested with all the 1 jurisdiction and powers which by law it is competent for the City Council to confer on the City Board of Health, in addition to the powers and authority given by the general law Said Board may establish, declare and maintain quarantine whenever such action in their opinion may be neces- sary to protect the City and it's in- inhabitants from contagious, malig- nant or infectious diseases, and they shall make all needful bylaws, or ders, rules and regulations to make the object and purposes of quaran- tine effective. It is made their duty to discover, declare and abate, or cause to be abated, any and all nuisances prejudicial to the health of the City. And generally said Board of Health is invested with full power and author ity and it is made their duty at all times to do or cause tp be done every thing necessary to protect the city and the inhabitants thereof from the evils of contagious, malignant and infectious diseases, and to preserve the general healthfulness of the city and it's inhabitants. Said Board shall have power and authority to declare as a nuisance and order abated, dis continued, or removed, any matter, substance, thing, act, practice or car rying on, which, in it's nature, effect, tendency, or continuance, is or may become dangerous, injurious or detrl- mental to the public health of said City, or the health of it's inhabitants.
 Section 5. Any bylaw, odinance, regulation, rule, order or command made in writing by order of said City Board of Health, in execution or fur therance of the jurisdiction, power and duties conferred on said Board by this Ordinance and bylaw, shall have all the force and effect of an Ordinance of this City duly passed " it's Council.
 Section 6. Any person, firm or corporation, who shall neglect or re- fuse to obey, or shall violate or shall resist the execution of any by-lays, ordinances, regulation, rule, order or command lawfully made in writing by order of said Board, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars, and may be fined double the last named sum for each repetition of such offense or violation; and in all cases the person so fined may, in addition to such fine, be imprisoned for any term not ex- ceeding thirty days.
 Section T. Any person, firm or corporation refusing to obey any such bylaw, ordinance, regulation, rule, or der or command of said Board shall, in addition to the fine imposed in the preceding section, be liable to a civil action in the name of the city for all moneys expended or costs incurred by the city in removing or abating such nuisance, or in doing or causing to be done that which said person, firm or corporation under said order or command of said Board should have done.
 Section 8. The public officers of the city shall serve, execute and en- force all orders and commands made in writing by said Board of Health and signed and attested by the Pres ident and Secretary. of said Board; and when the Mayor of said City shall, for any cause, deem it expedi-