Ordinance 324 - Creates City Board of Healthmq�
0 R D I NAN C E NO. 324.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTIONS 276, 277, 278, 279 and 280
OF ORDINANCE NO. 231.1 entitled "An Ordinance Revising,
codifying and enacting the General Ordinances of the City
of Kalispell, and -repealing all Ordinances.or parts of
Ordinances in conflict therewith," approved July 24th,
191-1.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KALISPELL:
Section 1. Section 276 of Ordinance No. 231,
entitled, "An -Ordinance revising, codifying and enacting
the General Ordinances.of the City of Kalispell, and re-
pealing all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict
therewith", approved July 24th, 1911, is amended to read
as follows:
Section 276. A Board of Health of the City of
Kalispell is hereby cz,eitlled which shall consist of three
members.
Section 2. Section 277 of Ordinance No. 231,
entitled, "An Ordinance revising, codifying and enacting
the General'Ordinances of the City of Kalispell, and re
pealing all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict
therewith", approved July 24th, 1911, is amended to read
as follows:
Section 277. The Mayor shall be a member of
the Board of Health and one of the members shall be an
alderman of the City and one axegularly licensed and
practicing physician residing within the City of Kalis-
pell, which members other than the Mayor shall be appoint-
ed by the Mayor with the consent of the Council. The
members of the Board of Health shall hold their offices
for one year and until their successors are appointed and
qualified. Each member of the Board of Health shall take
the oath of office required of other City officers. The
Board of Health shall have the power to make by-laws and
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regulations for its own Government and to'issue such
orders as maybe necessary for.,the proper performance
of the duties of the Board not inconsistent with the
Laws of the State or the ordinances of the City of
Kalispell. The Board of Health shall keep a record
of its official proceedings, which shall be open to the
inspection of any citizen of the City at any reasonable
hour.
Section 3. Section 278 of Ordinance No. 231-
entitled, "An Ordinance revising, codifying and enacting
the General Ordinan.ces of the City of Kalispell, and re-
pealing all Ordinances of parts of.Ordinances in conflict
therewith", approved July 24th, 19.11, is maended to read
as follows:
Section 278. The physician member of the Board
of Health shall be ex-officio the Health Officer of the
-A City and as such shall be gove'rned by and execute the ord-
ers of the Board of Health.
Section 4.. Section.279 of Ordinance No. 231,
entitled "An Ordinance revising, codifying and enacting
the General Ordinances of the City of Kalispell, and re-
pealing all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict
therewith", approved July 24th, 1911, is amended to read
as follows:
,Section 279. The members of the said Board of
Health shall serve without compensation with the excep-
tion of the Health Officer who shall receive as compensa-
tion a salary to be fixed from time to time by the City
Council. The Board of Health shall have general super-
vision of the sanitary conditions of the City; shall
have power to declare what are nuisances liable to impair
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the general health of the people; to direct the Health
Officer to abate the same.
$ also to place in quarantine
persons, houses or districts infected with or by infect-
ious or contagious diseases and to require the Health
Officer to execute the orders of the Board in such cases.
Section 5. Section 280 of Ordinance No. 231,
entitled "An Ordinance revising, codifying and. enacting
the general Ordinances of the City of Kalispell, and re-
pealing a.11 Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict
therewith".. approved July 24th, 1911, is amended to read
as follows:
Section 280. The Chief of Police and all the
members of the Police force, shall, whenever called upon
by the Board of Health or the City Health Officer, assist
in enforcing the orders of the Board of Health.
Section 6. This Ordinance is hereby declared
to be an Emergency Measure and its going Into immediate
effect necessary for the preservation of the public health.
Section 7.
The provisions of all. ordinances in
conflict with this Ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 8. This Ordinance shall take immediate
effect upon its passage and approval.
Passed by the City Council May 24th, 1915.
Approved by the Mayor MaIT 24th, 1915.
R. PAULINE, MAYOR.
R. E. ROLLINS, City Clerk.
STATE OF MONTANA, ( SS.
COUNTY OF FLATHEAD.
I) R. E. Rollins, City Clerk of the City of
Kalispell, hereby certify that on the 25th day of May,
1915, I.posted a copy of the foregoing Ordinance in my
office arid that the same remained -posted for a period
of five days thereafter and that the foregoing record
is a true copy of the ordinance as passed by the Council.
'Nitness my hand this , :yj day of
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