Section 42
SEC. 42. Powers and duties of the City Health Officer.-There shall be a City Health Officer, with a salary of not exceeding six 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, slaughter houses, and markets. He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinances, and regulations relating to the public health. He 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. He shall make sanitary inspections and may be aided therein by such members of the police force of the city or of the Philippine Army as shall be designated as sanitary police by the chief of police or proper Army officer and by such sanitary inspectors as may be authorized by law. He shall have control and supervision over puericulture centers and social services of the city. He shall have general supervision and control over the health and sanitary establishments and activities of the city, including garbage collection, sanitary employees of the city markets, city pound, and slaughterhouses, subject to existing law and ordinances. He shall be the ex-officio civil registrar of the city. He shall perform such other duties, not repugnant to law, with reference to the health and sanitation of the city as the Director of Health shall direct.