Return of interments to Health Officer. setting forth as near as possible the name, age, color, sex, place of birth, date, locality, and cause of death of the deceased; and physicians, when deaths occur in their practice, must give such certificates. SEC. 3026. Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 24. Superintendents of cemeteries within the to be made boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco must return to the Health Officer on each Monday the names of all persons interred within their respective cemeteries for the preceding week, together with the certificates mentioned in the preceding section. Bodies not to be removed without permit. Nuisances on premises of nonresidents, how abated. Health Officer to keep fee book. Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 27. SEC. 3027. No Superintendent of a cemetery can remove or cause to be removed, disinter or cause to be disinterred, any corpse that has been deposited in the cemetery without a permit from the Health Officer, or by order of the Coroner. Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 28. SEC. 3028. Whenever a nuisance exists on property of any non-resident of the city and county, the Board of Supervisors may, on the recommendation of the Board of Health, cause the nuisance to be abated, and may allow and order paid out of the General Fund all proper charges and expenses incurred in abating such nuisance; and all sums so allowed and paid become a charge upon the property on which the nuisance existed, and may be recovered by an action against such property. Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, Sec. 30. SEC. 3029. The Health Officer must keep in his office a book in which he must make an entry of all fees collected by him. He must pay all fees collected to the City and County Treasurer weekly, to the credit of the General Fund. Stats. 1869-70, p. 721, Sec. 32. SEC. 3030. The Health Officer must execute an official bond, to be approved by the Board of Health, in the sum Bond of of ten thousand dollars. Stats. 1869-70, p. 721, Sec. 33. Health Officer may oaths. SEC. 3031. Any member of the Board of Health, Health Deputy Health Officer, or Secretary of the Health Depart- administer ment, is empowered to administer oaths on business connected with that Department. Stats. 1869-70, p. 721, Sec. 34. SEC. 3032. Whenever any cause of action arises under any of the provisions of this Chapter, suit may be maintained therein, in the name of the Health Officer, in any District Court of this State. Action, in name whose maintained. ARTICLE IV. HEALTH REGULATIONS FOR THE CITY OF SACRAMENTO. SECTION 3042. Board of Health, who and how appointed. 3043. Term and vacancies. 3044. Powers of the Board of Health. 3045. Pest houses, how located and conducted. 3046. Death records. 3047. Enforcement of regulations. Health Officer. 3049. Compensation, how fixed. SEC. 3012. The Board of Trustees of the City of Sac Board of Health, who and how ramento may establish by ordinance a Board of Health therefor, to consist of five practicing physicians, grad- appointed. uates of a medical college of recognized respectability, and the President of the Board of Trustees is ex officio President of the Board. Stats. 1867-8, p. 403, Sec. 1; 1869–70, p. 452, Sec. 1. vacancies. SEC. 3043. The members of the Board hold their Term and offices at the pleasure of the appointing power. SEC. 3044. The Board of Health of the City of Sacramento has a general supervision of all the matters appertaining to the sanitary condition of the city, and Powers of the Board of Health. Pest houses, how conducted. may make such rules and regulations in relation thereto as are not inconsistent with law. Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, Sec. 2. SEC. 3045. The Board of Health may locate and establocated and lish pest houses, and cause to be removed thereto and kept any person having a contagious or infectious disease; may discontinue or remove the same, and make such rules and regulations regarding the conduct of the same as are needful. Stats. 1853, p. 35, Sec. 1. Death records. Enforcement of regulations. Health Expenses, how paid. Compensation, how fixed. SEC. 3046. The Board of Health must exercise a general supervision over the death records of the City of Sacramento, and may adopt such forms and regulations for the use and government of physicians, undertakers, and superintendents of cemeteries as in their judgment may be best calculated to secure reliable statistics of the mortality in the city and prevent the spread of disease. Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, Sec. 3. SEC. 3047. The Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento must, by ordinance or otherwise, provide for enforcing such orders and regulations as the Board of Health may from time to time adopt; and in times of epidemics, or when deemed necessary by the Board of Health, a Health Officer must be employed to enforce the laws in relation to the sanitary condition of said city. Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, Sec. 4. SEC. 3048. All expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out the provisions of this Article must be provided for by the Board of Trustees of the City of Sacramento, who may make appropriation therefor out of the Special Street Fund, if the same is sufficient; if not, they may by taxation provide a Fund therefor. Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, Sec. 5-extended. SEC. 3049. The Board of Trustees must fix the compensation of the Board of Health and the Health Officer. ARTICLE V. HEALTH AND QUARANTINE OF OTHER CITIES, TOWNS, AND HARBORS. SECTION 3059. Boards of Supervisors may adopt Article III. 3060. Boards of Supervisors may adopt Article IV. 3061. Incorporated cities or towns may adopt Articles III and IV. 3062. May appoint Health Officer in lieu of Board. 3063. Per capita or property tax, how levied. SEC. 3059. The Board of Supervisors of any county in which there is a port of entry or harbor, for which there is not otherwise provided health and quarantine regulations, may by an ordinance adopt the whole or any part of the provisions of Article III of this Chapter, appoint a Board of Health, or Health Officer, locate quarantine grounds when necessary, and provide for the enforcement of health and quarantine regulations. SEC. 3060. In like manner the Board of Supervisors of any county in which there is an unincorporated city or town, for which there is not otherwise provided a Board of Health or health regulations in time of epidemics, or the existence of contagious or infectious diseases, may by an ordinance adopt for such city or town, in whole or in part, the provisions of Article IV of this Chapter for some definite period of time; and appoint therefor a Board of Health. SEC. 3061. The Trustees, Council, or other corresponding Board of any incorporated town or city in this State, may by ordinance adopt the whole or any part of Articles III and IV of this Chapter, or of either of them, as provided in the preceding section for the Boards of Supervisors. Boards of Supervisors may adopt Article III. Boards of Supervisors may adopt Article IV. Incorpo- rated cities and IV. appoint Officer in lieu of SEC. 3062. In the place of appointing a Board of May, Health, the Board of Supervisors or the city or town Health authorities may appoint a Health Officer, with all the duties and powers of the Board of Health and Health Officer, as specified in the two preceding Articles. Board. Per capita or property tax, how levied. SEC. 3063. All necessary expenses of enforcing this Article are charges against the counties, cities, or towns respectively, for the payment of which the county, city, or town may levy a per capita tax of not exceeding three dollars or a property tax of not exceeding one fourth of one per cent yearly until the same is paid. Registry of marriages. Registry of births. Registry of deaths. CHAPTER III. REGISTRY OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. SECTION 3073. Registry of marriages. 3074. Registry of births. 3075. Registry of deaths. 3076. Marriages must be recorded. 3077. Reports to Recorder. 3078. Same. 3079. Duties of Recorder. 3080. Report to Secretary of State and of Board of Health. 3081. Fees. 3082. Penalties. SEC. 3073. All persons who perform the marriage cere mony must keep a registry of the time of each marriage so celebrated, the residence, the names in full, the place of birth, the age and condition of each party, and whether either party has ever been before married; if so, to whom and whether the person with whom such former marriage was contracted is living or dead. SEC. 3074. All physicians and professional midwives must keep a registry of the time of each birth at which they assist professionally, the sex and color of the child, and the names and residence of the parents. SEC. 3075. Physicians who have attended deceased persons in their last sickness, clergymen who have officiated. at a funeral, Coroners who hold inquests, and sextons who have buried deceased persons, must each keep a registry of the name, age, residence, and time of death of such person. |