[Ord. 842, §1]
The board of health of the city shall be composed of the members
of the health committee and the county health officer. A majority
of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum at any meeting
of the board.
[Ord. 842, §2]
The board of health shall exercise general supervision over
the health of the city, with full power to take all measures necessary
to promote the cleanliness and salubrity thereof; to abate nuisances
of every description on public or private property; to prevent the
introduction into the city of malignant, contagious or infectious
diseases and to adopt such regulations, restrictions, or measures
deemed advisable and to prevent the introduction or spreading of contagious
or infectious diseases within the city.
[Ord. 842, §3]
It shall be the duty of the city police to attend any meetings
of the board of health and to serve all precepts and notices issued
by the board; to execute all orders of the board directed to them;
to attend to the abatement and removal of nuisances and to perform
such other duties in relation to nuisances as the board may direct
as often and such manner as may be required by it to examine the condition
of all streets, lanes, avenues, alleys, market places and all public
squares of the city and report to the board all nuisances found; to
notify persons upon whose premises, or premises occupied by them,
of any nuisances which may exist, to remove the same and if they be
not removed to make report in writing to the board; to visit at least
once a week and oftener when required by the board, every part of
the city; to arrest any person found violating this Code or any city
ordinance which relates to the sanitary regulations of the city; and
to watch for and arrest persons throwing, or permitting to be thrown,
conducting or allowing to be conducted from their premises into the
streets and alleys, any filth or other matter prohibited by this Chapter,
and in other respects to exercise the utmost diligence in enforcing
this Code and other ordinances in regard to the health department.
[Ord. 842, §4]
City police are authorized to enter in the daytime and examine
all cellars, yards, enclosures and tenements within the city. Wherever
nuisances exist or filth is suffered to accumulate, or water is found
in any cellar or basement under any building, city police are authorized
to direct the owner or occupier of the premises to remove the same
and if such removal be not so made, the fact shall be reported to
the board of health. Permits may be granted by any member of the board
of health for cleaning privies or the removal of nuisances.
[Ord. 2889, §1]
(a)
That
the city council of the City of Rolla, Missouri, hereby finds and
declares it to be the public policy of the City of Rolla that the
City should not be held responsible for any damage done to the surface
of any privately owned driving surface, including, but not limited
to driveways and parking lots, by any City owned vehicle in the performance
of City services.
(b)
If any
property owner does not notify the respective City department in writing
prior to the provision of services that his private driving surface
cannot accommodate certain vehicles, then the property owner shall
be deemed by the City to have waived any claim arising from foreseeable
damages to said property.
(c)
That
this Ordinance shall be considered a hold harmless agreement between
the City of Rolla and every person owning property in the City of
Rolla, as to the damages mentioned in paragraph (b) of this Ordinance,
and every property owner shall by publication of this Ordinance be
placed on notice of the same.