HEALTH 1801

provisions of this law, shall meet at least once in each month; shall adopt,
publish and enforce by appropriate penalties all needful rules and regu-
lations, not inconsistent with law or the regulations of the State Board of
Health, necessary for the protection of public health, to prevent the intro-
duction or spread of disease; to abate insanitary nuisances and shall have
supervision and control of all matters relating to public health. The City
Board of Health shall appoint a City Health Officer whose duty shall be
the execution and enforcement of all laws and regulations relating to pub-
lic health; the collection of reports of deaths, births and sickness; the
abatement of insanitary conditions; and shall perform such other duties
as are now or may be hereafter provided by law or the City Board of
Health. Such Health Officer shall hold office for the term of two years
from the date of his appointment, unless by reason of his conduct, he is
required to vacate his office. The Health Officer shall be authorized to ap-
point, with the consent of the City Board of Health, such assistants as
may be necessary for the proper performance of his duties. He shall aid
and assist the Health Authorities in all matters of prevention and suppres-
sion of disease, quarantine, inspection and sanitation within his jurisdic-
tion. The Mayor and Council or the properly constituted authorities of
any city in which a Board of Health is organized under the provisions of
this section, is hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect, as
other monies for said city governmental purposes are collected, such funds
as, in their opinion, are necessary and desirable for the purpose of making
effective the provisions of this section.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 48. 1912, sec. 36. 1904, sec. 25. 1888, sec. 11. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 4.
1902, ch. 475. 1914, ch. 742. 1916, ch. 202.

48. The Local Board of Health of each County shall meet semi-
annually in the months of May and October, and as much oftener as they
may deem necessary; they shall act in conjunction with the State Board
of Health and shall report to said board such facts in reference to the sani-
tary conditions of their respective Counties as they may deem impor-
tant or necessary; they may adopt and enforce all needful rules and regu-
lations concerning nuisances and-causes of sickness within their respective
jurisdiction subject to the provisions of this Article; they may regulate all
fees and charges in connection with their own regulations and shall estab-
lish the salaries of their respective County health officers on the following
maximum bases: not exceeding, in Counties having a population of 15,000
or less, $150 per annum, with an additional allowance of not more than
$100 per annum for each 8,000 of population in excess of 15,000.

Provided, that in Montgomery County it shall be the duty of the County
Commissioners to meet exclusively as a board of health on the first Wednes-
day of each month; and provided further, that it shall be the duty of
the health officer of said Montgomery County, in addition to those duties
otherwise prescribed by law, in instances of contagion to fumigate all
school and other public buildings, the materials therefor to be provided
by said Board of Health, and provided further that said health officer for
said Montgomery County, shall perform all the duties heretofore required
of the physicians to the jail and the almshouse of said Montgomery County;
and provided further that the salary as health officer for said Montgomery
County shall be $1,200 per annum.

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 495 of acts of 1920 repeals all laws inconsistent with said ch. 495 to
the extent of such inconsistency.