Section 1
SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Three hundred and ¦ eight is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words: "Provided. That with the approval of the respective municipal councils and the approval of the Director of Health, the district health officer may organize any two or more neighboring municipalities into a municipal health district, and such municipalities composing a district may employ jointly a president of the municipal health district thus constituted who shall also act as president of the municipal board of health of each municipality comprised in the said municipal health district and shall receive such compensation as may be appropriated by the respective municipal councils and approved by the Director of Health and shall be reimbursed by the municipality for which travel is performed for traveling expenses necessarily incurred in the discharge of his official duties, all other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding. Presidents of municipal health districts shall be subject to the same requirements of law as other presidents of municipal boards of health, except as to restriction of salary, and shall be appointed in the same manner."