Powers and duties of the city health officer.
Section 79
SEC. 79. Powers and duties of the city health officer.— There shall be a city health officer, with a salary of nine thousand pesos per annum, who shall have charge of the Health Department. He shall have the following general powers and duties: He shall have general supervision and control over the health and sanitary condition of the city, including the cleaning of crematories, cemeteries, stockyards, slaughterhouses, and markets He shall have control and supervision over puericulture centers and social services of the city. He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinances, and regulations relating to public health. He shall, upon the approval of the Director of Health, recommend to the Municipal Board 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. He shall make sanitary inspections and may be aided therein 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. He shall perform such other duties with reference to the health and sanitation of the city as the Director of Health shall direct: Provided, That the appointment of technical persons shall be made only with consultation of the Director of Health, and nothing in this law shall be interpreted as to curtail the power and duties conferred by existing laws to the Director of Health over the City of Manila as a part of the Philippines, and that the Director of Health shall continue to have technical supervision and control over the health work of the city. In case of epidemic or when the inhabitants of the City of Manila are menaced by any other infectious or contagious disease, the Director of Health shall assume full control of the health and sanitation services of the city until such condition shall have ceased to exist.