Section 38
SEC. 38. Powers and duties of the City Health Officer.&mdashThere shall be a City Health Officer with a salary of seven thousand eight hundred pesos per annum, who shall have charge over the Department of Health. He shall have general supervision and control over the health and sanitary condition of the city and shall have control and supervision over puericulture centers and social services in the city. He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinances and regulations relating to public health and shall recommend to the City Council the passage of ordinances as he may deem necessary for the preservation of public health. He shall cause to be prosecuted all violations of sanitary laws, ordinances, or regulations and shall make sanitary inspections and may be aided herein by such members of the police force of the city as shall be designated as sanitary police by the Chief of Police and by such sanitary inspectors as may be authorized by law or ordinances. He shall keep a civil registry for the city and record therein all births, marriages, and deaths with their respective dates. He shall perform such other duties with reference to the health and sanitation of the city as the Director of Health Services shall direct: Provided, That nothing in this law shall be interpreted, as to curtail the powers and duties conferred by existing law to the Director of Health Services over the City of Cebu as a part of the Philippines, and that the Director of Health Services shall continue to have technical supervision and control over the health work of the city. The City Health Officer shall have an assistant and such other personnel to assist him with his duties as may be provided for from time to time by appropriation ordinances.