nished by the board of health. [Amendment approved 1878; Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 56.] Legislation § 3024. 1. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, § 26. 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 56. § 3025. No bodies to be interred without permit. No person shall deposit in any cemetery, or inter in the city and county of San Francisco, any human body without first having obtained and filed with the health-officer a certificate, signed by a physician or midwife, or a coroner, setting forth as near as possible, the name, age, color, sex, place of birth, occupation, date, locality, and the cause of death of the deceased, and obtain[ed] from such health-officer a permit; nor shall any human body be removed or disinterred without the permit of the health-officer, or by order of the coroner. Physicians, when deaths occur in their practice, must give the certificate herein mentioned. Hereafter it shall be the duty of the assistant city physician, or police surgeons, to perform all autopsies which may be required in the coroner's office of the city and county of San Francisco, all such autopsies being made without charge to the city. It shall be the duty of the health-officer to see 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 [than] five feet deep. [Amendment approved 1878; Code Amdis. 187778, p. 56.] Legislation § 3025. 1. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, § 24. 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 56. § 3026. Return of interments to be made. Superintendents of cemeteries, within the boundaries of the city and county of San Francisco, must return to the health-officer, on each Monday, the names of all persons interred or deposited within their respective cemeteries for the preceding week. [Amendment approved 1878; Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 57.] Legislation § 3026. 1. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, § 27. 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 57. § 3027. Bodies not to be removed without permit. 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. Violating sepulture and the remains of the dead: See Pen. Code, §§ 290 et seq. Legislation § 3027. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 186970, p. 720, § 28. § 3028. Nuisances on premises of non-residents, how abated. Whenever a nuisance shall exist on the property of any non-resident or any property, the owner or owners of which cannot be found by either healthinspector, after diligent 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 [order] 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 his use when ascertained. The board of health is hereby vested with power to act upon, define, determine, and adjudge what shall constitute a nuisance in said city and county, and to require the same to be abated in a summary manner. Any person who maintains, permits, or allows a nuisance to exist upon his or her property or premises, after the same has been determined by said board to be a nuisance, and after notice to remove the same has been served upon such person, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished accordingly; and each day of such existence, after notice, shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense, and it is the duty of the health-officer to prosecute all persons guilty of violating this law by continuous prosecutions until the same is abated and removed. [Amendment approved 1878; Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 57.] . Legislation § 3028. 1. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1869-70, p. 720, § 30. 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 57. § 3029. Health-officer to keep fee-book. 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. Legislation § 3029. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1869– 70, p. 721, § 32. § 3030. Bond of health-officer. The health-officer must execute an official bond, to be approved by the board of health, in the sum of ten thousand dollars. Official bonds: Ante, § 947 et seq. Legislation § 3030. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1869 70, p. 721, § 33. § 3031. Officers empowered to administer oaths. Any member of the board of health, health-officer, or quarantine-officer, or secretary, or as sistant secretary of the health department, is empowered to administer oaths on business connected with that department. [Amendment approved 1878; Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 58.] Legislation § 3031. 1. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1869-70, p. 721, 8 34. 2. Amended by Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 58. § 3032. Actions, in whose name maintained. 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. § 3033. Vacation of infected and dangerous houses. Whenever it shall be certified to the board of 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. Legislation § 3033. Added by Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 58. § 3034. Physician to report infectious diseases. 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 ease 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 smallpox, and any deaths occurring at his or her house from such disease. Legislation § 3034. Added by Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 58. § 3035. Board of health to have charge of city cemetery. The board of health shall have entire charge of the city cemetery, and shall employ a superintendent, at a salary of seventy-five dollars per month, the same to be paid as the salaries of other employees are paid. Legislation § 3035. Added by Code Amdts. 1877-78, p. 59. § 3042. Board of health, who and how appointed. The board of trustees of the city of Sacramento may establish by ordinance a board of health therefor, to consist of five practicing physicians, graduates of a medical college of recognized respectability; and the president of the board of trustees is ex officio president of the board. Legislation § 3042. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 186768, p. 403, § 1, as amended by Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, § 1. § 3043. Term of office. The members of the board hold their offices at the pleasure of the appointing power. Legislation § 3043. Enacted March 12, 1872. § 3044. Powers of the board of health. 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 may make such rules and regulations in relation thereto as are not inconsistent with law. Legislation § 3044. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 186768, p. 403, § 2, as amended by Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, § 2. § 3045. Pest-houses, how located and conducted. The board of health may locate and establish 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. Proceedings in case of contagious or infectious diseases: See ante, § 3022. Legislation § 3045. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1853, p. 35, § 1. § 3046. Death records. 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. Legislation § 3046. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 186970, p. 452, § 3. § 3047. Enforcement of regulations. Health-officer. 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 the city. Legislation § 3047. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1867– 68, p. 403, § 3, as amended by Stats. 1869-70, p. 452, § 4. § 3048. Expenses, how paid. 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. Legislation § 3048. 70, p. 452, § 5. Enacted March 12, 1872; based on Stats. 1869 § 3049. Compensation, how fixed. The board of trustees must fix the compensation of the board of health and the health-officer. Legislation § 3049. Enacted March 12, 1872. ARTICLE V. Health and Quarantine of Other Cities, Towns, and Harbors. § 3059. § 3060. § 3062. § 3063. Boards of supervisors may adopt article three. § 3064. Compensation. § 3059. Boards of supervisors may adopt article three. 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 three of this chapter, appoint a board of health, or healthofficer, locate quarantine-grounds when necessary, and provide for the enforcement of health and quarantine regulations. Legislation § 3059. Enacted March 12, 1872. § 3060. Boards of supervisors may adopt article four. 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 four of this chapter for some definite period of time; and appoint therefor a board of health. Legislation § 3060. Enacted March 12, 1872. § 3061. Board of health established in towns and cities. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees, council, or other corresponding board, of every incorporated town and city of this state, to establish, by ordinance, a board of health for such town or city, to consist of five persons, one at least of whom shall be a practicing physician 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 |