Private Acts of 1919 Chapter 670

SECTION 1.  That hereafter in counties having a population of not less than 15,430 and not more than 15,440 inhabitants according to the Federal Census of 1910 or any subsequent Federal Census it shall be the duty of the county health officer to open and maintain an office in the county site and shall post or have posted on the windows or doors thereof, in conspicuous letters, his name, followed by the words "County Health Officer" and it shall be his duty, upon the relation or complaint of two or more citizens of said county, alleging or suggesting the presence of dangerous, contagious or communicable diseases in any community within said county; to visit the scene or place of such contagion within twenty-four hours after such information has been communicated to him and if same is found to be true, to treat or dispose of same as is now provided for by law.

SECTION 2.  That failure or refusal of any health officer to comply with the provisions of this Act shall be punishable by a fine of not more than fifty dollars and not less than twenty-five dollars within the discretion of the court, upon the indictment and conviction of same.

SECTION 3.  That this Act take effect from and after January 1, 1920, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  April 14, 1919.