The City Health Officer—His salary, powers and duties.
Section 26
SEC. 26. The City Health Officer—His salary, powers and duties.—There shall be a city health officer, who shall have charge of the health department. He shall receive a salary not exceeding four thousand two hundred pesos per annum. The city health officer shall have the following general powers and duties: He shall have general supervision over the health and sanitary conditions of the city. He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinances and regulations relating to the public health. He shall recommend to the municipal board the passage of such ordinances as he may deem necessary for the preservation of the public health. He shall cause to be prosecuted all violation of sanitary laws or ordinances or regulations. He shall make sanitary inspections and may be aided therein by such members of the police force of the city or the national police as shall be designated as sanitary police by the chief of police or proper national police officer and such sanitary inspector . as may be authorized by law. He shall keep a civil register for the city and shall record therein all births, marriages and deaths with their respective dates, He shall perform such other duties, not repugnant to law or ordinance, with reference to the health and sanitation of the city as the Director of Health shall direct.