101 of 1971 - Amending Title 17, by REPEALING Chapters 1 and 2, relating to the Board of Health and by adding a ne J ROLL CALL
VOTING Aye Nay Salt Lake City,Utah..._......Q.Ct912eS'... ,1971....
Barker . . .
Catmull . . I move that the Ordinal be passed.
Garn . .
Harrison �/
Mr.Chairman . /
Result . AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 17 of the Revised Ordinances of Salt
Lake City, Utah, 1965, relating to the Board of Health, by repealing
Chapters 1 and 2 in their entirety and by adding thereto a new Chapter
1, relating to Board of Health - Regulations and General Provisions.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
Utah:
SECTION 1. That Title 17 of the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake
City, Utah, 1965, relating to the Board of Health, be, and the same
hereby is, amended by repealing Chapters 1 and 2 in their entirety
and by adding thereto a new chapter 1, relating to Board of Health -
Regulations and General Provisions, to read as follows:
CHAPTER 1
BOARD OF HEALTH - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
17-1-1. Creation of board of health.
17-1-2. Organization.
17-1-3. Powers and duties.
17-1-4. Rules and regulations.
17-1-5. Abatement of nuisances.
17-1-6. . Fly control.
17-1-7. Rodent control.
Sec. 17-1-1. Creation of board of health. There is hereby
created a board of health which shall be known as the Salt Lake
City-County Board of Health.
Sec. 17-1-2. Organization. The Salt Lake City-County Board
of Health shall consist of a member of the county commission,
appointed by the county commission and a member of the city com-
mission appointed by the city._commission and of eleven other
members appointed by the board of county commissioners. The
membership in the board of health shall continue as now constituted
with the addition of five members, four of whom are to be appointed
by the county commission from recommendations submitted by the
Salt Lake City Commission, as set forth herein, and one of whom
will be appointed as a member-at-large.
Board members shall be appointed by the board of county commis-
sioners from the following areas of Salt Lake County, except that
incorporated cities and towns in each area to be submitted, may
submit a list of at least three and not more than five names of
recommended board members for membership on the board to be
appointed and from which the county commission shall select the
representative for that area. In the event that any or all of the
municipalities in an area to be represented do not adopt this
ordinance, the board of county commissioners may appoint a member
of the board of health as a member-at-large.
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(1) One member from Murray.
(2) One member from the South Salt Lake - Granger area.
(3) One member from the Hunter - Kearns - Magna area.
(4) One member from the Bingham - Draper - Riverton -
South Jordan area.
(5) One member from the Midvale - Sandy - Union area.
(6) Three members to be appointed at large.
(7) Three members from Salt Lake City, in addition
to the Public Safety Commissioner.
The Salt Lake City-County director of health shall be appointed
by the Salt Lake County board of commissioners.
The director of health shall be a full-time physician who is a
graduate of a legally chartered and legally constituted medical
school, licensed to practice medicine and surgery in all branches
in Utah. License may be secured within six months from the date
of appointment, and his employment will be subject to such other
requirements as is set out by the .ate of Utah and Salt Lake County
merit systems.
The director of health shall have and exercise the following
powers and duties in addition to all other powers and duties
required of him by state law, federal law and local ordinance:
(1) To be the chief executive and administrative officer of the
City-County department of health, and the secretary and executive
officer of the board;
(2) Succeed to all powers and discharge all duties and perform
all functions which by existing and continuing law are conferred
upon or required to be discharged or performed by the City-County
health director, or the board of health;
(3) With the approval of the board of health to designate a
member of the staff of the department of health as acting director
of health to act for and perform all the duties and functions of
the director of health during his absence or disability.
(4) To prescribe regulations not inconsistent with the law for
the direction of the department, the conduct of its employees,
the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody,
use and preservation of the records, papers, books, documents, and
property pertaining to the department of health;
(5) To approve travel and subsistence expenses necessary for
employees of the department as actually and necessarily incurred in
the performance of their official duties when absent from their
places of residence;
(6) Wherever the director of health is responsible for the
performance of any act, he may authorize an appropriate employee
of the department to act for him;
(7) On a non-partisan merit basis, similar to that established
by the state merit system, prescribe the qualifications, duties
and powers of all personnel, as may be necessary, in the performance
of the duties of the department, fix the rate of pay according to
the compensation plan established by the board of health, and appoint,
promote, and separate such employees, and perform such other per-
sonnel actions as are needed;
(8) Serve, without additional compensation or payment of fees
provided by law, as local registrar of vital statistics for the
area over which the department has jurisdiction with respect to
enforcement of state health laws;
(9) To promote and enforce all public health federal, state and
local health laws, ordinances, codes, rules and regulations in the
department's areas of jurisdiction.
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(10) Serve as official health consultant to, and official
health spokesman for, elected officials in the county, cities
and towns in which the department has jurisdiction.
Sec. 17-1-3. Powers and duties. The city-county board of
health is hereby empowered to enforce all ordinances of the county
and all applicable ordinances of the participating municipalities
and the laws of the State of Utah, now in force or that may here-
after be enacted, which relate to the health and sanitation of
the county.
Sec. 17-1-4. Rules and regulations. The board of health shall
make such rules and regulations, not contrary to law and not in
conflict with rules and regulations of the Utah State Department
of Health or the Utah State Department of Agriculture, as may be
deemed necessary for the protection and preservation of the public
health and to prevent the outbreak or spread of infectious or
contagious diseases and the enforcement of the quarantine laws
against any or all persons afflicted with or that have been exposed
to any contagious or infectious diseases.
Sec. 17-1-5. Abatement of nuisances. The board of health shall
cause every nuisance dangerous to health and human life, within
its jurisdiction, to be abated. When complaint of such nuisance is
made to it, the board of health shall cause the matter to be
investigated and shall determine whether or not the alleged nuisance
is detrimental to the public health.
Whenever the board of health shall determine that a nuisance
detrimental to health exists, it shall in writing, notify the owner
or occupant of the premises where said nuisance may be found and
shall order the abatement or removal of such nuisance within two
days. If such nuisance is not abated or removed pursuant to such
order, the board of health may summarily proceed to abate or
remove the same, or it may cause the offender to be prosecuted as
a violation of the ordinances of Salt Lake City.
Sec. 17-1-6. Fly control. It shall be unlawful for any person
to permit, or have on his premises, whether owned or occupied by
him, either one or more of the following unsanitary conditions:
(1) Any privy, cesspool, sink, pit or like place which is
not securely protected from flies.
(2) Garbage which is not securely protected from flies.
(3) Vegetable waste, trash, litter, rags or refuse of any kind
in which flies may breed.
Sec. 17-1-7. Rodent control. It shall be the duty of the owner
or operator of any building in the city to control rats and other
rodents by measures which shall include the periodic use of exter-
minators and, to the extent possible, by the rat-proofing of such
buildings.
SECTION 2,. In the opinion of the Board of Commissioners of Salt
Lake City, it is necessary to the peace, health and welfare of the inhabi-
tants of Salt Lake City that this ordinance become effective immediately.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect upon its first publication.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lak City, Utah, this
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MAYOR
(SEAL) REc AN
NO. of 197
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