The City Health Officer—His powers and duties.
Section 31
SEC. 31. The City Health Officer—His powers and duties.—There shall be a city health officer and one assistant city health who shall respectively be the chief and the assistant chief of the health department. The city health officer shall receive a salary of six thousand pesos per annum, and the assistant city health officer, four thousand five hundred pesos, one half of which salaries shall be paid by the city government and other half by the National Government. 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 ordinance as he may deem necessary for the preservation of the 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 member of the police force of the city or of 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 have charge of the collection and disposal of all garbage, refuse, the contents of closets, vaults, and cesspools, and all other offensive and dangerous substances within the city and, in the event the disposal and collection of such garbage, refuse and other offensive substances has been awarded to a private contractor, the disposal and collection thereof shall be under the supervision of the city health officer. He shall administer the city cemeteries; and shall have charge of the duties relative to the issuance of burial and transfer permits and permits for the conveyance of body to sea for burial. He shall have control and supervision over puericulture centers and social services of the city. He shall keep a civil register for the city for recording the civil status of persons, in which shall be entered: (a) births, (b) deaths, (c) marriages, (d) annulments of marriages, (e) legitimations, (f) adoptions, (g) acknowledgment of natural children, (h) naturalizations; and (i) change of name. He shall also perform such other duties as are required of all civil registrars by the provisions of Act Numbered Thirty-seven hundred and fifty-three, entitled "An Act to established a Civil Register." He shall perform such other duties, not repugnant to law or ordinance, with reference to the health and sanitation of the city as the Secretary of Health and shall direct. In case of epidemic or when the inhabitants of the city are menaced by any infectious or contagious diseases, the Secretary of Health shall designate the proper health officer who shall assume control of the health and sanitation services of the city until such condition shall have ceased to exist.