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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 484 ORDINANCE NO An Ordinance creating a Board of Health for the City of Fort Worth, prescribing the Jowers of said Board, the duties of the members, and repealing Ordinance No. 338 passed August 12th, 1913. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF CONMISSIOMIMS, OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, Section 1. Thtre is hereby created and establish- ed a Board of Health in and for the City of Fort Worth. It shall be composed of the Mayor who shall be the presiding officer, and 11 members, all of whom shall be resident citizens of the City of Fort Worth.. Section 2. As soon as this ordinance shall become effective, the members of said Board of Health shall be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Board of Coimnissioners, and they shall serve without compensation, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Mayor, provided however, that the termsof office shall, in no event without reappointment, exist for a longer period than two years. Section 3. Immediately after their appoint- ment and comfirmation by the Board of Commissioners, the members of said Board of Health shall meet and organize by electing a Vice President end Secretary. Said Board of Health shall upon such organization proceed to establish such rules and regulations for the governm,ent .of same, as in their judgment may be deemed necessary and proper, and the Mayor shall appoint such committees as may be provided for by the act of said Board. Six members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the general rules of parliamentary law shall be applicable and enforced in all proceedings of said Board, and the officers thereof shall each perform the dutiee usually incident to such position. Section 4. The Board of Health shall hold , s i } d �2. at least one regular meeting in each month, to be fixed by'said Board, and -s many other adjourned, special or called meetings as may be deemed proper and regular under the rules by said Board established. Section 5. Except as may be herein otherwise provided, said Board of Health shall have general supervision end c m trol of all matters pertaining to the health of the citizens of the City, and shall have general supervision over the'enforcement of a.11 laws, ordinances, rules and regulations dealing with public health, sanitary and hygienic conditions within the City, and the suppression and prevention of all infectious and contagious diseases; provided, however, that the City p)aysicisn shall not be under the supervision of the Board of Health, nor is it intended by this ordinance to, in any mariner, modify or change the duties and powers of said officer, as defined by the charter of the City of Fort Worth, and in all cases ew of epidemics ofA UV"a aetd contagious diseases, the City , physician shall have control and the Board of Health shall co-operate with him in the prevention and suppression of all o�r A ", contagious diseases; provided further that it is not intended by this ordinance to grant said Board any power or jurisdict- ion over sanitary and health conditions of the public schools, but said board may upon the request of the Board of Trustees of the Independent School District of the City of Fort Worth, co-operate with said trustees in health and sanitary regulations . Section 6. The Board of Health shall have general supervision and control over the milk, dairy n.nd food inspector, . and all sanitary officers of the City of Fort Worth in all matters relating to health and sanitary conditions, and each of said officers shall carry out all ordeas emanating from the board relating to health and sanitary consi tions of the City, shall attend the meetings of said board when summoned or #3. 4* requested, and shall make such reports as said board may require. And it is hereby made the especial duty of said board to see that the provisions of the ordinme e of this City relating to pure food and pure milk Adairy products and regulations are enforced. Section 7. It is not intended by this ordinance under the general powers herein conferrEd, to give the Board of Health jurisdiction and control of the management of the .City-County Hospital. S ection S. It shall hereafter by the province and duty of said Health Board to recommend to the City Commission the milk and dairy inspector, and all sanitary and health officers other than the City Physician. Section 9. It is hereby made the duty and province of said Board of Health to make to the Board of Oo=iaei0riers recommendations and suggestions in any manner tendiag to promote the general health and sanitary of the said City, and said board shall especially make on the 2nd Tuesday in January of each year, a report in writing show- ind the work done by said board during the year previous, and containing such recommendations and suggestions, as they may deem proper. Section 10. The Commissioner of Police and Fire, the City Physicia n and the Chief of Police are hereby made members of said Board of Health ex-officio, who shall be privileged to attend all meetings of the Board of Health, and entitled to discuss with said board, all measures, matters and things pertaining to the work and duties of said board, but said three ex-officio membe7°s shall not be entitled to a vote. in said board, nor shall their presence be counted as_ among the number requisite to form a quorum. Section 11. In addition to the regular monthly meeting and such special or called meetins as the rules of said Health Board may provide for, the Mayor or the Commission- � i t C• #4. er of Police and Firelnay at any time call said board to- gether for adtion on any matter by said Mayor or said Com- mission of Police and Fire deemed urgent and important. Section 12. It is hereby made the duty of the City Physician to attend any regular or called meetingl of the Board of Health when requested by the Mayor or said 2a Board Ato do jm�e. Section 13. Said Board of Health shall not nl_ � -e the expenditure of any money, unless the same be authorized by the Board of Commissioners. Section 14. The Board of Health is hereby authorized to suspend any officer of the City over whom, by the terms of this ordinance, it has control for insorbina,tion . or for a failure to comply with the orders of the Bo-rd of Health; such suspension shall be immediately reported to the Board of Commissioners, and should the Board of Commissioners not sustain said suspension and shall reinstate the suspended a. officer/prrorAta, deduction from the salary of said officer so suspended shall, neverless, be made by the City Auditor and City Secretary, in making up the pay-roll. It shall be the - r, duty of the Secetar of said Board to immediately notify the officer suspended, and also notify the City Auditor of such suspension, giving the date thereof. Section 15. Ordinance No. 338 passed by the Board of Commissioners on the 12th day of August 1913, the same being sections 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 48 of title one, chapter 12 of the Revisod Ordinance of the City of Fort Worth, as the same appears at pages 176, 177 and 178 bfi and the same are hereby repealed; and all other rules and ordinances in direct conflict with the provisions herdof shall to that extent be and the same are hereby repealed, but it it especially provided, however, that this ordinance shall be construed as cumulative of all other rules and #5. ordinances heretofore enacted for the preservation of the general health and sanitary condition of the City, and shall be so applied, except as to those sections herein- before especially repealed. Section 16. This ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. Approved as to Form and Validity. /' Corpora ion Counsel. I hereby certify that the above and foregoing ordinance was duly presented and passed and adopted by the Board of Commisa+e loners of the City of Fort Worth at a regular session of said Board held Tuesday August 31st, A. D. 1915. City secretary.