Fifth-To require reports of dangerously communicable diseases. (Amended by Act approved May 16, in force July 1, 1903. L. 1903, p. 136.) 36. Rules and Regulations, Violation, Penalty, Funds, Payment. SEC. 3. Any person who shall violate or refuse to obey, any rule or regulation of the said board of health, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $200 for each offense, or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or both, in the discretion of the court. All fines collected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which the suit is brought, to be used for county purposes, and it shall be the duty of the State's attorney in the respective counties to prosecute all persons violating, or refusing to obey, the rules of said local boards of health. 37. Annual Report, Records. SEC. 4. The clerk of the board of county commissioners, or the town clerk, as the case may be, shall keep a full record of all the doings of said board and report the same to the annual meeting of such board of county commissioners, or town board. 38. Compensation and Expenses. SEC. 5. The members of said boards of health shall be allowed for the time spent in the performance of their said duties, each the sum of $1.50 per day, which, together with all bills by them contracted and all sums of money by them expended, shall be audited and paid in the same manner as other county and town expenses. (Amended by Act approved May 16, in force July 1, 1903. L. 1903, p. 137.) 39. Repeal. SEC. 6. Sections one (1), two (2), and three (3) of Article XIV of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to township organization," approved and in force March 4, 1874, and all Acts or parts of Acts conflicting herewith are hereby repealed. 40. Boards of Health, Cities and Villages. Under the Cities and Villages Act, the city council in cities and the board of trustees in villages have power to appoint a board of health and prescribe its duties and powers. (Par. 62, Sec. 1, Cl. 76, Hurd's Stats. 19151916, pp. 304, 308.) In cities under the commission form of government the statute provides for a department of public health and safety, administered by a commissioner, whose duties are prescribed by ordinance in the same manner as in other cases. (Pars. 193b 23-24, Chap. 24, Hurd's Stats. 1915-1916, p. 340.) AN ACT to authorize the organization of public health districts and for the establishment and maintenance of a health department for the same. Filed June 26, in force July 1, 1917. L. 1917, p. 763. 41. Public Health Districts, Organization. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Any town, or two or more adjacent towns in counties under township organization, or any road district, or two or more road districts in counties not under township organization, or any town or towns in a county under township organization and an adjacent road district or road districts in a county not under township organization, may be organized into a public health district. 42. Town or Road District, Submission to Voters. SEC. 2. Upon a petition containing the signatures of legal voters in number not less than five per cent of the total vote cast in any town or road district, and filed with the town or road district clerk at least thirty days before the regular town or road district election, the proposition of erecting such town or road district into a public health district shall be submitted to a vote of the people at the next regular town or road district election in the manner provided by this Act. 43. Several Towns or Road Districts, Submission to Voters. SEC. 3. Upon a petition requesting that two or more adjacent towns or road districts be erected into a health district and containing the signatures of legal voters in number not less than five per cent of the total vote cast in each of two or more adjacent towns or road districts, and filed with the county clerk at least thirty days before the regular town or road district election, the proposition of erecting such towns or road districts, or town and road district, into a public health district shall be submitted to a vote of the people of such towns or road districts at the next regular town or road district election in the manner provided by this Act. Where the towns or road districts desiring to be erected into a health district are in two or more counties, the petition shall be filed with the county clerk of the county in which the greater population of the proposed health district is located. 44. Town or Road District's Election, Notice. SEC. 4. Upon the filing of such petition with the town or road district clerk, the town or road district clerk shall, when giving notice of the holding of the next regular town or district election, also give notice that a vote will be taken at the regular town or district election for or against the proposition of the erection of the town or road district into a public health district. 45. Several Towns or Road Districts' Election, Notice. SEC. 5. Upon the filing of such petition with the county clerk, such county clerk shall, at least twenty days prior to the regular town or district election, certify to the town or district clerk of each town or road district, petitions for which are on file in his office requesting that such towns or road districts be erected into a public health district, that the proposition of erecting such towns or road districts (naming them) will be submitted to a vote of the people of the towns or road districts at the regular town or road district election. The town or district clerk shall, when giving notice of the holding of the next regular town or district election, also give notice that a vote will be taken at the town or district election for or against the erection of the towns or road districts (naming them) into a public health district. 46. Ballot, Form. SEC. 6. The proposition shall be voted upon in the same manner as a constitutional amendment or other public measure. When the proposition to be voted upon is to erect a town or road district into a public health district, the proposition may be substantially in the following form: Shall this.. (town or road district) YES be erected into a public health district? NO When the proposition to be voted upon is to erect two or more adjacent towns or road districts into a public health district, the proposition may be substantially in the following form: Shall this.. unite with the. of.. (town or road district) YES 47. Number of Votes Necessary. NO SEC. 7. When the proposition voted upon is to erect a single town or road district into a public health district, such proposition shall be carried if a majority of those voting upon the proposition shall vote "yes." When the proposition voted upon is to erect two or more adjacent towns or road districts into a health district, such proposition shall be carried if the majority of those voting upon the proposition in each town or road district shall vote "yes." 48. Town or Road Districts' Ballots, Counting. SEC. 8. When the proposition is submitted to the voters of a single town or road district, the ballots shall be counted, the returns canvassed and the result declared as in the case of a regular town or district election. 49. Several Towns or Road Districts' Ballots, Counting. SEC. 9. When the proposition is submitted to the voters of two or more adjacent towns or road districts, the ballots shall be counted and the returns made to the county clerk of the county wherein the petition was filed as in the case of returns to the county clerk at a general election. The returns shall be opened and canvassed by the county clerk, with the assistance of two justices of the peace of the county, and the result declared. 50. Result of Election, Evidence. SEC. 10. The town or district clerk, or the county clerk, as the case may be, shall record the result of the vote upon the proposition and such result may be proved in all courts and in all proceedings by such record or by a certified copy thereof. 51. Board of Health Defined. SEC. 11. In counties not under township organization the county commissioners shall be the board of health for each public health district in the county. Where a public health district, in counties under township organization, consists of a single town, the supervisor, assessor and town clerk of such town shall be the board of health for such public health district. Where a public health district consists of two or more adjacent towns, the supervisors of such towns, together with the chairman of the county board, shall be the board of health for such public health district. Where a public health district consists of a town or towns in a county under township organization united with a road district or road districts in a county not under township organization, the supervisor or supervisors of the town or towns, together with the road district clerk or road district clerks, shall be the board of health for such public health district. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 52. Board of Health, Organization, Meetings. SEC. 12. The board of health shall meet in some convenient place in the public health district within two weeks after the declaration of the result of the election, and shall elect from their own number a chairman and a secretary, and, either from their own number or otherwise, a treasurer. 53. Public Health District, Corporate Name. SEC. 13. The board of health shall, at its first meeting, select a suitable name for the public health district and file the same with the county clerk, or county clerks, of the county or counties in which the district is located, and thenceforth the public health district shall be a body corporate and shall be known by that name. Upon the filing of such name with the county clerk, or county clerks, the public health district shall be deemed to be completely organized. 54. Public Health District, Judicial Notice. SEC. 14. All courts shall take judicial notice of all public health districts organized under this Act. 55. Board of Health, Powers and Duties. SEC. 15. Each board of health shall have power and it shall be its duty: 1. To hold an annual meeting on the second Tuesday in April of each year, at which meeting officers shall be elected for the ensuing year; 2. To hold meetings quarterly on the second Tuesday of January, April, July and October; 3. To hold special meetings upon a written request signed by two members and filed with the secretary; 4. To levy, annually, in addition to all other taxes which are now or hereafter may be authorized to be levied on the aggregate valuation of all property within the public health district, a special "public health tax," not to exceed four mills on the dollar on all taxable property embraced within such public health district, according to the valuation of the same as made for the purpose of State and county taxation, to form, when collected, a fund to be known as the "public health fund;" 5. To appoint a public health officer from a list of eligibles supplied by the State Department of Public Health; 6. To appoint, upon the advice and approval of the public health officer, such nurses, chemists, experts, clerks and assistants as the public health officer may deem necessary; 7. To fix the compensation of the public health officer, which shall in no case be less than one thousand five hundred dollars; 8. To provide, equip and maintain suitable offices, facilities and appliances for the health officer and his assistants; 9. To establish, equip and maintain an analytical, biological and research laboratory; 10. To pay, from the "public health fund," the salary of the public health officer and the salaries of all appointees and employees and the expense of maintenance of the public health department, including therein the expense of administering the sanitation and health laws and ordinances; 11. To acquire and hold, in the name of the public health district, real estate and personal property; 12. To receive contributions of money or property; 13. To publish, annually, on or soon after the second Tuesday in April, in pamphlet form, for free distribution, an annual report showing the condition of their trust on the first day of April of that year, the sums of money received from taxation and from other sources, giving the name of the donor, how all moneys have been expended and for what purpose, and such other statistics and information in regard to the work of the health department as they may deem of general interest. 56. Public Health Officers, Examination, Notice. SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the State Department of Public Health to prepare, by open, competitive examination, of which notice shall be given in the "official newspaper," selected by the department of public works and buildings, for at least three weeks prior to the holding of such examination, a list of eligibles for appointment as public health officers. 57. Public Health Officers, Powers and Duties. SEC. 17. The public health officer shall have power, and it shall be his duty: 1. To be the executive officer of the board of health; 2. To enforce and observe the rules, regulations and orders of the State Department of Public Health and all State laws pertaining to the preservation of the health of the people within the public health district; 3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties of all township boards of health and county boards of health within the public health district; 4. To execute and enforce, within the public health district, all city, village and incorporated town ordinances relating to nuisances, public health and sanitation; 5. To investigate the existence of any contagious or infectious disease within the public health district and to adopt measures, with the approval of the State Department of Public Health, to arrest the progress of the same; 6. To make all necessary sanitary and health investigations and inspections within the public health district; 7. To establish a free dental clinic for the benefit of the school children of the district; 8. To give professional advice and information to all city, village, incorporated town and school authorities within the public health district in all matters pertaining to sanitation and public health; 9. To devote his entire time to his official duties. 58. Health Ordinance, Enforcement. SEC. 18. In all public health districts all ordinances of cities, villages and incorporated towns lying within such public health district, relating to nuisances, sanitation, and public health, shall be administered by the public health officer appointed pursuant to this Act, and not otherwise. 59. Anticipation Warrants. SEC. 19. Each board of health, organized under this Act, shall be empowered to issue warrants in anticipation of taxes to the same extent, in the same manner and with like limitations and restrictions as county, city, village and incorporated town authorities. 60. Public Health Tax Certificate, Extension of Tax, Collection. SEC. 20. Each board of health shall, annually, on or before the first day of August of each year, transmit to the county clerk in which such public health district is located, or if the public health district is located in more than one county, then to the county clerk of each county in which a part thereof is located, a certificate signed by the chairman and treasurer, setting forth the rate or percentage of such taxes by them levied for the purposes herein provided, and it shall be, and is hereby made the duty of the county clerk to whom such certificate shall be transmitted, to set down in the general tax warrant of the year for the collection of the State and county taxes, in a separate column to be styled a "public health tax," a tax in amount equal to the sum resulting from the rate or percentage so certified by such board of health upon the real and personal property within such health district, or such part thereof as may be located in his county, according to the valuation of the same as made for the purpose of State and county taxation; and shall set down in each column the amount of tax chargeable to the several persons, corporations, lots or parcels of land, liable for taxes in such public health district according to such rate or percentage, and the collector shall proceed to collect the same in such manner as is now, or may hereafter be provided by law for the collection of State and county taxes; and the provisions of law in respect to collection of State and county taxes, and proceedings to enforce the same, which are now enforced, or which may be hereafter enacted, so far as applicable, shall apply to such taxes; and as fast as such tax shall be collected by the collector or other officer receiving the same, it shall be paid over to such board of health, on the joint order of the chairman and treasurer of the board of health and shall be receipted for by such treasurer. The funds shall be used only for the purposes herein prescribed and shall be disbursed by the treasurer on the joint order of the chairman and secretary. A failure by the board of health to file the certificate with the county clerk in the required time shall not vitiate the assessment. AN ACT to provide for the registration of all births, stillbirths and deaths in the State of Illinois, and to repeal an Act entitled, "An Act requiring reports of births and deaths, and the recording of the same, and prescribing a penalty for non-compliance with the provisions thereof, and repealing certain Acts therein named, approved May 6, 1903, in force July 1, 1903." Approved June 22, in force July 1, 1915. 61. Birth and Death Registration, Supervision, Records. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the sented in the General Assembly: That the State L. 1915, p. 660. Enforcement, State of Illinois, repre- |