necessary by said committee to properly illustrate such bulletin or report. And for the purposes herein mentioned when, in the opinion of said committee, the state printers are not prepared to do in proper manner any engraving or other work required for such report or bulletin, the governor may authorize special contracts with such persons, firms, or corporations, within or without the state, as in the judgment of said committee will secure the promptest and most satisfactory work. 55, § 3. 697. Payment for printing and binding bulletins.-The ac- Dec. 10, counts for the printing, engraving, and binding done under 1900, p. the provisions of this chapter, when approved by the governor, shall be paid by his order out of any moneys in the state treasury. (Criminal Code)......6479, 6491, 6501, 6502, 6510, 6527, 6563, 6569, 6542, 6939, 6645, 6940, 6950, 6951, 7125, 7396-7405, 7510-7515, 7779 GRAVEYARDS IN TOWNS AND CITIES (Political Code) GRAVEYARDS, LOCATION OF (Political Code) .86- 97 GUARANTEE, SURETY OR BOND COMPANIES (Political Code)..1507-1524 GUIDE-BOADS, OFFENSES CONCERNING (Criminal Code) GUNPOWDER (Criminal Code) .4482-4484, 2867 7395 7583 7007-7048 .4611-4618 .6770, 6793, 7843 .4901-4926 HARD LABOR FOR COUNTY (Criminal Code)........6580-6592, 6596, 6602-6605, 7462, 7481, 7607 HARD LABOR FOR FINES AND COST (Criminal Code) ..... ...7634, 7635 .6479-6607 2361 Oct. 9, 1903, p. 499, § 1. SECTION. ARTICLE 1. HEALTH LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 698-733. SECTION. 716. The diseases named, the spread 717. Isolation and detention of 721. Resistance of health officer. notify tenants or lessees of infected houses. 723. Inspection of places where food is sold. 724. Interment when too long delayed. 725. Transportation of dead bodies. 727. Sanitary regulations; expenses. 698. State board of health; how constituted.-The medical association of the State of Alabama, organized in accordance with the provisions of the constitution adopted at the annual meeting of the association, held in Tuscaloosa in March, 1873, and confirmed by an act of the legislature approved February 19, 1875, is the state board of health. Health Laws and Regulations. 22, 1907. 699. (2424) Clerk of the state board of health. The state as amendboard of health is authorized to employ a clerk whose salary ed, Feb. shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum, which shall be p. 68, § 11. paid him by the auditor in monthly installments, on the order of the presiding officer of the state board of health. (Feb. 12, 1893, p. 705.) 1903, p. 700. County boards of health; how constituted.-The county Oct. 9, medical societies in affiliation with the medical association of 499, $2 the State of Alabama, and organized in accordance with the provisions of its constitution, are boards of health for their respective counties and for all incorporated towns and cities therein, and shall be under the general supervision and control of the state board of health. 701. (2433) (1286) (1543) No other local boards than county boards of health to be established.-No local board of health or executive medical body of any name or kind, for the exercise of public health functions, other than the county board of health, must be established in any county, town, or city. (Feb. 19, 1875, p. 130, § 8.) 15, 1907, 702. Authority, jurisdiction, and duties of the state board Ib., § 3. of health. The state board of health shall have general con- As amendtrol over the enforcement of the laws relating to the public ed, Aug. health; shall investigate the causes, mode of propagation, and p. 893, $2. means of prevention of endemic, epidemic, infectious, and contagious diseases; shall investigate the influence of localities and employments on the health of the people; shall have the right to inspect all public schools, hospitals, asylums, jails, poorhouses, theaters, operahouses, courthouses, prisons, markets, public dairies, slaughter-pens or houses, depots, passenger cars, and other public places and institutions of like character; also the sources of supply, reservoirs, and avenues of conveyance of drinking water furnished to incorporated cities and towns; shall prescribe and publish rules for the sanitation of depots and passenger cars on all lines of railroads in this state, including the territory contiguous to said lines of railroad; shall exercise general supervision and control over the county boards of health in the execution of the public health laws of the state in their respective counties; and shall act as an advisory board to the state in all sanitary and medical matters. As amended, Aug. 703. Duties, authorities, and powers of county boards of Ib., § 4. health. It shall be the duty of county boards of health(a) To supervise the administration of the health laws of 15, 1907, 28-AC-VOL I p. 898, § 3 Health Laws and Regulations. the state in their respective counties, and to enforce the law for the collection of vital and mortuary statistics. (b) To investigate through their committees of public health and health officers cases or outbreaks of any of the diseases enumerated in section 716 of this Code, and to enforce such measures for the prevention or extermination of said diseases as they are authorized by law to enforce. (c) To investigate through their committees of public health and health officers all nuisance to public health against which complaint has been alleged, and whenever complaint is ascertained to be well founded they shall, through said committees and health officers, take such steps for the abatement of the nuisance complained of as the law provides. (d) To exercise through their committees of public health and health officers special supervision over the sanitary conditions of public schools, hospitals, halls, operahouses, theaters, asylums, courthouses, jails, industrial and manufacturing establishments, prisons, markets, public dairies, public slaughter pens or houses, and depots and passenger cars on all lines of railroads in their respective counties, including the territory contiguous to said lines of railroads. (e) To elect a health officer for the county, removable at pleasure, and to fix his term of office, the jurisdiction of which officer shall extend to all parts of the county except such as are comprised within the municipal limits of incorporated cities or towns within the county. (f) To elect a health officer, removable at pleasure, for every incorporated city and town in the county and to fix the term of office of such health officer, provided that the health officer of a county may be eligible for the position of health officer of any one or more incorporated cities or towns in his county. The authorities of said incorporated cities or towns shall fix fair salaries for their respective health officers. (g) To elect physicians to attend the inmates of the county poorhouse and jail, and to fix the terms of office of such physicians, provided that both of said positions may be filled by the same physician, or by the county health officer. The court of county commissioners or boards of revenue shall fix fair salaries for such physicians as may be elected to fill said positions, or for the county health officer, should he be elected to fill them or any one of them. (h) To require the county health officer to submit to the judge of probate and county commissioners or board of revenue, by or before the first day of March of each year, on blank forms to be supplied by the state board of health, a full and complete report of all public health and sanitary work, with such other information, suggestion, and recommendations in Health Laws and Regulations. regard to the protection of the health of the people as said board may deem proper, which report shall include the vital and mortuary statistics of the county. (i) To require the health officer of every municipality in the county to submit to the mayor and council of such municipality by or before the first day of March of each year, a full and complete report of all public health and sanitary work, which report shall include the vital and mortuary statistics of the municipality, and may contain such other information, suggestions, and recommendations in regard to the protection of the health of the people as said board may deem proper. (j) To require the county health officer to forward to the state board of health, by or before the tenth day of each calendar month, a report of all births and deaths, specifying the causes of the latter, that have occurred in the county, including all municipalities therein for the preceding month; alsɔ, by or before the first day of March of each year, an annual report containing a full account of all public health and sanitary work done in the county during the preceding year, which report shall include the vital and mortuary statistics of the county and of all municipalities therein, and may contain such other information, suggestions, and recommendations in regard to the protection of the health of the people, as said board may deem proper. (k) To perform all such other duties as are or may be required by law. Ib., § 5. As amend 15, 1907, p. 893, § 4. 704. State health officer; election; his duties and powers.The state board of health shall elect an executive officer, to be known as the state health officer, and shall fix his term of office ed, Aug. and salary, provided that the latter shall not exceed five thousand dollars per annum. The state health officer so elected shall, under the direction of the state board of health, exercise general supervision over the county boards of health and county and municipal health officers, and shall promptly report to said county boards of health any delinquencies of official duty on the part of said county and municipal health officers which may come to his knowledge; shall keep himself informed in regard to all infectious, contagious, and pestilential diseases which may be in danger of invading the state, and shall, so far as authorized by law, take prompt measures to prevent such invasion; shall keep the governor informed as to the health conditions prevailing in the state, especially as to outbreaks of any of the diseases enumerated in section 716 of this Code, and shall submit to the governor such recommendations as he deems proper to control such outbreaks. 705. Report of state board of health.-The state board of health shall submit to the governor an annual report of its Ib., § 6. |