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Ord. 150, 18945. Z
Street.
Ord. 24 of 18871.3 Tenant.
Tenement-
Ibid.
house.
Ibid.
Vessel,
Constitution
ORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.
Public Health.
"Street" includes any square, court or alley, highway, lane, road, or passage whether a thoroughfare or not.
"Tenant" means any person who holds direct from any householder the whole of any floor or floors of any building or tenement-house:
"Tenement-house" means any domestic building let to and inhabited by more than one occupier or family, as tenants of a common landlord, or as sub-tenants of a tenant of any portion of such domestic building:
"Vessel" means any steam or sailing ship, launch, junk, lighter, sampan, or boat.
Constitution and General Powers of Sanitary Board.
4.-(1.) The Board shall consist of the Director of Public Works, the Registrar General, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Principal Civil Medical Officer, and (if appointed by the Governor) the Medical Officer of Health, and not more than six additional members, four of whom (two being Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor, and two elected by such ratepayers as are included in the Special and Common Jury Lists, and also by such ratepayers as are exempt from serving on juries on account of their professional avocations. Non-official members of the Board shall hold office for three years.
(2.) The Governor shall have power to appoint the Medical Officer of Health for the time being a member of the Board, and when appointed such officer shall have all the powers, privileges and authorities of any other ordinary member of the said Board.
5.-(1.) The mode of election, the proceedings incident thereto, and all other matters relating to the election of the said members by the said ratepayers, shall be governed by rules made by the Governor in Council, who may, from time to time, add to, vary, or revoke, any of the said rules.
(2.) The rules contained in Schedule C to this Ordinance shall be in force unless and until altered by the Governor in Council.
6. The Governor shall appoint the president and vice-president of the Board, and the names of all members appointed to the Board shall be forthwith notified in the Gazette, and any number of the Gazette containing a notice of any such appointment, shall be deemed sufficient evidence thereof for all purposes.
7. If any member of the Board be at any time prevented for more than six months by absence or other cause from acting, the Governor may appoint, or if the member has been elected, the electors may nominate some other person to replace such member, until he shall be able to resume his functions.
8. The Board shall be held to be legally constituted, notwithstanding any vacancies occurring therein by the death, absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.
9.-(1.) The Board shall meet once in every alternate week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The president may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed by three members of the Board, summon a meeting thereof.
(2.) Any four members shall be a quorum for the despatch of business, and at every meeting, the president or vice-president shall preside, or, in their absence, the members present shall appoint a chairman. The president or vice-president or, in their absence, the chairman so appointed, shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.
10.-(1) The Board may from time to time make standing orders for regulating the mode and order of procedure at its meetings, for the conduct of its business between such meetings, and for the guidance of its officers and servants, and may from time to time alter and amend such standing orders.
(2.) The Board may appoint and when appointed may add to or dismiss by resolution, from time to time, select committees consisting of not less than two of its members or of one of its members and one of its officers.
11.-(1) The Board may by resolution from time to time delegate any or all of its powers and functions to such select committees with full powers to enforce all or any of the provisions of any Ordinances or bye-laws for the time being in force conferring powers on the Board or providing for the more effectual sanitation of the Colony.
(2.) Any failure to comply with the orders of a select committee duly signed by the secretary of the Board shall be deemed a contravention of the orders of the Board and shall be punishable in the same manner as if such order had been made by the said Board.
(3.) The Board may also, from time to time, delegate to the Medical Officer of Health all or any of the powers conferred upon it by sections 24, 26, 27, and 45, of this Ordinance, and may revoke such delegation at pleasure.
12. The president or vice-president shall give directions for carrying out and giving effect to the decisions of the Board.