Section 5
SEC. 5. The municipal board of health shall hold regular meetings on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, and special meetings at the call of the president, or of a majority of the members. Subject to the supervision and control of the provincial board of health, it shall have general supervision over the health and sanitary condition of the municipality and of its several barrios. It shall cause to be prosecuted all violations of sanitary laws, and shall enforce the regulations of the Board of Health for the Philippine islands and of the provincial board of health for the province in which the municipality is situated. It shall have power and authority to abate nuisances endangering the public health, to remove the cause of any special disease or mortality, and to make and enforce such quarantine regulations with reference to its municipality as it shall deem necessary. It shall draft and recommend to the municipal council suitable ordinances for carrying into effect the provisions of subsections (l), (m), (n), (o), (p), (q), (r), and (s) of section thirty-nine of the Municipal Code. During epidemics of contagious or infectious disease affecting the inhabitants or the domestic animals of the municipality, or of any of its barrios, and at such other times as may be deemed necessary by the municipal council, it shall appoint such sanitary inspectors as the municipal council may authorize. It shall perform such other duties with reference to the health and sanitation of the municipality as the provincial board of health for the province in which the municipality is situated shall direct.