City Physi Health cian, or Police Surgeons, to perform all autopsies which may Duty of be required in the Coroner's office of the City and County of Assistant San Francisco, all such autopsies being made without charge cian and to the city. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer to see officer. that the dead body of a human being is not allowed to remain in any public receiving vault for a longer period than five days. At the expiration of that time he shall cause the body to be placed in a vault or niche constructed of brick, stone, or iron, and hermetically sealed. It shall also be his duty to require all persons having in charge the digging of graves and burial of the dead to see that the body of no human being who had reached ten years of age shall be interred in a grave less than six feet deep, or if under the age of ten years the grave to be not less five feet deep. SEC. 14. Section three thousand and twenty-six (3026) of said Code is amended to read as follows: interments 3026. Superintendents of cemeteries, within the bounda- Return of ries of the City and County of San Francisco, must return to be made. to the Health Officer, on each Monday, the names of all persons interred or deposited within their respective cemeteries for the preceding week. SEC. 15. Section three thousand and twenty-eight (3028) of said Code is amended so as to read as follows: of non-resi abated. 3028. Whenever a nuisance shall exist on the property Nuisances of any non-resident or any property, the owner or owners of on premises which cannot be found by either Health Inspector, after dil- dents; how igent search, or on the property of any owner or owners, upon whom due notice may have been served, and who shall, for three days, refuse or neglect to abate the same, or on any city property, it shall be the duty of the Board of Health to cause the said nuisance to be at once removed or abated, and to draw upon the General Fund for such sums as may be required for its removal or abatement, not to exceed two hundred dollars; provided, that whenever a larger expenditure is found necessary to be made for the removal or suppression of any nuisance, the Board of Supervisors of said city and county shall, upon the written application of the Board of Health, by ordinance, appropriate, allow, and ordered paid out of the General Fund, such sum or sums as may be necessary for that purpose, and the Auditor shall audit, and the Treasurer shall pay all appropriations of money made in pursuance of this section, in the same manner as is now provided by law for auditing and paying demands upon the treasury; said sum or sums so paid shall become a lien on the property from which said nuisance has been removed or abated in pursuance of this section, and may be recovered by an action against such property. And it shall be the duty of the City and County Attorney to foreclose all such liens in the proper Court, in the name of and for the benefit of said city and county, and when the property is sold enough of the proceeds shall be paid into the city and county treasury to satisfy the lien and costs, and the overplus, if any there be, shall be paid to the owner of the property, if he be known, and if not, then into the Court for Power of Health. Officers empowered to administer oathis. Vacation of dangerous houses. his use when ascertained. The Board of Health is hereby SEC. 16. Section three thousand and thirty-one (3031) of said Code is amended to read as follows: 3031. Any member of the Board of Health, Health Officer, or Quarantine Officer, or Secretary, or Assistant Secretary of the Health Department, is empowered to administer oaths on business connected with that department. SEC. 17. The following is added as a new section to said Code, and shall be inserted in said Code after section three thousand and thirty-two (3032) and designated as section three thousand and thirty-three (3033): 3033. Whenever it shall be certified to the Board of infected and Health, by the Health Officer, that any building, or part thereof, is unfit for human habitation, by reason of its being so infected with disease as to be likely to cause sickness among the occupants, or by reason of its want of repair has become dangerous to life, said Board may issue an order, and cause the same to be affixed conspicuously on the building, or part thereof, and to be personally served upon the owner, agent, or lessee, if the same can be found in this State, requiring all persons therein to vacate such building, for the reasons to be stated therein as aforesaid. Such building, or part thereof, shall, within ten days thereafter be vacated, or within such shorter time, not less than twenty-four hours, as in said notice may be specified; but said Board, if it shall become satisfied that the danger from said house, or part thereof, has ceased to exist, may revoke said order, and it shall thenceforward become inoperative. Physicians to report certain cases immediately. Households to report certain cases in house. SEC. 18. The following is added as a new section to said Code, and shall be inserted in said Code in its numerical order, designated as section three thousand and thirty-four (3034): 3034. One-Every physician in the city and county shall report to the Health Officer, in writing, every patient he shall have laboring under Asiatic cholera, variola, diphtheria, or scarlatina, immediately thereafter, and report to the same officer every case of death from such disease, immediately after it shall have occurred. Two-Every household in said city and county shall forthwith report, in writing, to the Health Officer, the name of every person boarding or an inmate at his or her house, whom he or she shall have reason to believe sick of cholera or small-pox, and any deaths occurring at his or her house from such disease. SEC. 19. The following is added as a new section to said Code, and shall be inserted in said Code in its numerical order, designated as section three thousand and thirty-five (3035): Health to 3035. The Board of Health shall have entire charge of Board of the City Cemetery, and shall employ a Superintendent, at a have charge salary of seventy-five dollars per month, the same to be paid of City as the salaries of other employés are paid. SEC. 20. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 21. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Cemetery. CHAP. CCLXXV.-An Act to amend section three thousand and sixty-one of the Political Code, relative to local Boards of Health. [Approved March 19, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and established porated SECTION 1. Section three thousand and sixty-one of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 3061. It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees, Coun- Board of cil, or other corresponding Board, of every incorporated Health to be town and city of this State, to establish, by ordinance, a in incorBoard of Health for such town or city, to consist of five per- towns and sons, one at least of whom shall be a practicing physician cities. and a graduate of some reputable school of medicine, and one, if practicable, a civil engineer. The members of the Board shall hold their offices at the pleasure of the appointing power. Every local Board of Health established in this Duty of State must: First-Supervise all matters pertaining to the sanitary condition of their town or city, and make such rules and regulations relative thereto as are necessary and proper, and not contrary to law. Second-Report to the Secretary of the State Board of Health, at Sacramento, at such times as the State Board of Health may require: a. The sanitary condition of their locality. b. The number of deaths, with the cause of each, as near as can be ascertained within their jurisdiction, during the preceding month. c. The presence of epidemic or other dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease, and such other matters, within their knowledge or jurisdiction, as the State Board may require. Board. may adopt The Trustees, Council, or other legislative Board, by Trustees whatever name known, of any incorporated city or town Articles III of this State may, by ordinance, adopt any portion of Article and IV. III and IV of this Chapter, or either of them, for some definite period of time, as may seem proper for the regulation of sanitary matters within their town or city. SEC. 2. This Act shall not extend to any incorporated city or town, or city and county, for which health regulations and [are?] provided by special statutes. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect immediately. Registry of marriages. Register of births and filed with Recorder. CHAP. CCXXXIX.-An Act to amend sections three thousand and seventy-four, three thousand and seventy-seven, three thousand and seventy-nine, and three thousand and eighty-one of the Political Code, and to add a new section thereto, to be numbered section three thousand and eighty-three. [Approved March 16, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three thousand and seventy-four of said Code is amended so as to read as follows: 3074. All persons who perform the marriage ceremony must keep a registry of the time of each marriage so celebrated, the residence, the names in full, the place of birth, the age of each party, and whether either party has ever been before married. SEC. 2. Section three thousand and seventy-seven of said Code is amended so as to read as follows: 3077. All persons registering marriages, births, or deaths, deaths to be must quarterly file with the County Recorder a certified copy of their register. All such certificates must specify, as near as may be ascertained, the name in full, age, occupation, term of residence in the city or county, birth place, condition, whether single or married, widow or widower, sex, race, color, last place of residence, and cause of death of all decedents. Duties of Fees. SEC. 3. Section three thousand and seventy-nine of said Code is amended so as to read as follows: 3079. The Recorder must keep separate registers, to be known as the "Register of Marriages," the "Register of Births," and the "Register of Deaths," in which the marriages, births, and deaths certified to him must be numbered in the order in which they are reported, to him. There must be stated in each register, in separate columns, properly headed, the various facts contained in the certificates, and the name and official or clerical position of the person making the report. The Recorder must carefully examine each report and register the same marriage, birth, or death but once, although it may be reported by different persons. SEC. 4. Section three thousand and eighty-one of said Code is amended so as to read as follows: 3081. County Recorders, in those counties where their compensation is by fees, shall be allowed by the Board of Supervisors a fee of not excceeding ten cents for each name reported, to be paid out of the General Fund of the county; and in those counties where their compensation is by a fixed salary the duties in this Chapter provided shall be performed without compensation other than such salary. SEC. 5. The following section, number three thousand and eighty-three, is added to said Code, to be inserted therein immediately following section three thousand and eighty two: distribution register. 3083. The Secretary of the State Board of Health must Printing and prepare blank forms of said registers for the State Printer, of blank who must print as many copies as the said Secretary shall forms of direct, and deliver the same to the Secretary of State, who shall forward the same, from time to time, and in such numbers as shall be directed by the Secretary first mentioned to the County Recorders of the several counties, who must carefully keep and distribute the same to the persons in the county who are required to keep the registers and make the reports provided in this Chapter. SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. DCIII.—An Act to amend sections three thousand three hundred and thirty-five and three thousand three hundred and thirty-seven of the Political Code. [Approved April 1, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three thousand three hundred and thirty-five of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: organized. 3335. Fire companies in incorporated cities and towns are Fire compaformed and organized under special laws, or under authority nies; how conferred upon the city or town government. Those in incorporated towns and villages are organized by filing, with the Recorder of the county in which they are located, a certificate in writing, signed by the foreman or presiding officer and Secretary, setting forth the date of the organization, name, officers, and roll of active and honorary members, which certificate and filing must be renewed every six months. There shall not be allowed to any such cities, towns, or villages more than one company for each one thousand inhabitants, but one company shall be allowed in any city, town, or village where the population is less than one thousand. There shall not be allowed to any engine company more than sixty-five certificate members, to any hook and ladder company more than sixty-five certificate members, to any hose company more than twenty-five certificate members. |