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 who shall have charge of the department of health and shall receive a salary of fifteen thousand pesos per annum. He shall have an assistant to assist him in his duties who shall have a salary of ten thousand two hundred pesos per annum. The city health officer shall have the following powers and duties: (a) He shall have general supervision over the health and sanitary conditions of the city, including the cleaning of crematories, cemeteries, stockyards, slaughterhouses, and markets; (b) He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinances and regulations relating to the public health; (c) He shall recommend to the Municipal Board the passage of such ordinances as he may deem necessary for preservation of the public health; (d) He shall cause to be prosecuted all violations of sanitary laws, ordinances, or regulations; (e) He shall make sanitary inspections and may be aided therein by such members of the police force of the city or the national police as shall be designated as sanitary police by the chief of police or proper national police officer and such sanitary inspectors as may be authorized by law; (f) He shall have charge of the collection and disposal of all 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 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; (g) He shall administer the city cemeteries; and shall have charge of the duties relative to the issuance of burial and transfer permits and of permits for the conveyance of body to sea for burial; (h) He shall have control and supervision over puericulture centers and social services of the city; (i) He shall be the ex-officio local civil registrar of the city in charge of the issuance of the marriage license required by law to be issued before the solemnization of marriage. In this capacity, it shall be the duty of the city health officer or his authorized deputy to (1) prepare the documents as are required by law in connection with the issuance of marriage license and (2) administer oaths, free of charge, to all interested parties. (j) He shall keep a civil register for the city for recording the civil status of persons, in which shall be entered: (a) births, (6) deaths, (c) marriages, (d) annulments of marriages, (e) legitimations, (f) adoptions, (g) acknowledgments of natural children, (h) naturalization, and (i) changes of name. He shall also perform such other duties as are required of local civil registrars by the provisions of Act Numbered Thirty-seven hundred and fifty-three, entitled "An Act to establish a civil register; and (k) 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 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 a health official who shall help the city health officer institute such health and sanitary measures as may be promulgated by the Department of Health to prevent and/or stop the occurrence of such epidemic.