The City Health Officer—His powers avid duties.
Section 44
SEC. 44. The City Health Officer—His powers avid duties.—There shall be a City Health Officer who shall have charge of the Health Department. The Municipal Health Officer of the Pagadian Rural Health Unit shall be the ex-officio City Health Officer and he shall receive additional compensation as the Board may appropriate in accordance with law. The City Health Officer shall have the following general powers and duties: He shall have general supervision and control over the health and sanitary conditions of the city including the cleaning of crematories, cemeteries and markets. He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinances and regulations relating to public health. He shall recommend to the City Board the passage of such ordinance 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 or ordinance. 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 not repugnant to law or ordinance, 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 Pagadian as part of the Philippines, and that the Director of Health Services shall have technical control over the health work of the city. There shall be an assistant city health officer who shall assist the said city health officer and shall perform such other duties the city health officer may assign to him. The assistant city health officer shall be paid from city funds