§ 5-34. Adoption and enforcement of sanitary code.
Latest version.
It shall be the duty of the commissioner of public safety to formulate, adopt, promulgate
and enforce complete ordinances, rules and regulations for the security of life and
health in said city which shall be known as the "sanitary code" of said city. It shall
be the duty of the health officer of said city in conjunction with the board of examining
plumbers thereof to formulate, adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for plumbing
and drainage, which shall govern the same and said rules and regulations shall be
included in and constitute a part of said sanitary code. Before such rules and regulations
shall take effect they shall be approved by the commissioner of public safety. Such
sanitary code may embrace all matters and subjects to which and so far as the jurisdiction,
power and authority of the department of health extends, not inconsistent with the
constitution or laws of the state, and may be revised, altered, amended or annulled
from time to time by said commissioner of public safety. The provisions thereof shall
be binding and in full force and effect in said city. Compliance with the provisions
of said code may be enforced and any violation of the provisions of said code shall
be subject to the penalties as hereinafter provided and said code may, in addition
thereto, provide for specific penalties for any violation thereof. From and after
January first, nineteen hundred and twenty, the commissioner of health shall exercise
all the power and be charged with all the duties conferred upon the commissioner of
public safety or the health officer by this section, but the sanitary code and any
other ordinances, rules and regulations heretofore formulated, adopted and promulgated
by the commissioner of public safety pursuant to the provisions of this act [chapter]
shall continue in full force and effect except as the same may be revised, altered,
amended or annulled from time to time by the commissioner of health.
