B.    The health officer shall make sanitary inspections whenever and wherever the health officer has reason to suspect anything exists which may be detrimental to the public health.

    C.    It shall be the duty of the health officer to enforce all laws of the state and city, and all rules and regulations of the board of health in relation to the sanitary condition of the city; to cause all nuisances to be abated with reasonable promptness.

    D.    The health officer shall, as secretary of the board of health of the city, by a written instrument under his/her hand, order the destruction, prevention or removal, within a specified time, of all nuisances, sources of filth or causes of sickness, as directed by the board of health.

    E.    The health officer shall, whenever in his or her judgment and upon approval in writing by the Secretary of the State Board of Health of the state of Montana, order all buildings, such as schoolhouses, churches, theatres, or other places where people congregate in considerable numbers, to be closed in time of epidemic or in the face of serious or unusual sickness whenever safety may require the same, and may forbid and prevent the assembling of the people in any place when the public health and safety demand the same.

    F.    The health officer shall visit and examine or cause to be visited and examined, all sick persons reported to him as sick, or supposed to be sick with smallpox, cholera or any contagious, infectious or epidemic disease, and cause such persons, if necessary, to be removed to the hospital or place provided for persons sick with a contagious disease, and when so removed to cause them to be provided with suitable nurses, medical attendance and medicine. If the person so removed is unable to pay the expense thereof, it shall be paid for in the manner provided by law.

    G.    In the case of pestilence or epidemic disease or danger therefrom, it shall be the duty of the health officer to adopt all such precautions as in the health officer's judgment may be required to prevent the entrance or spread of any contagious diseases. Any emergency rules the health officer shall believe the public health and safety demand, shall be reported to the council for approval as soon after promulgation as possible.

    H.    The health officer shall impose such restrictions upon and exercise such supervision over all persons afflicted with contagious or epidemic disease as shall be necessary to protect from such disease all persons not of necessity connected with any person so afflicted or sick.

    I.    The health officer shall attend any sick or injured prisoner in the city jail, examine all police officers and firefighters who may apply for sick leave permits, and purchase at the city's expense such medical and surgical supplies as may be required for prisoners.

    J.    The health officer shall advise the board of health upon all matters relating to the public health and the necessary steps to be taken for the prevention or eradication of disease and perform such other duties as may be necessary for the protection of the public health as shall be required of the health officer by the board of health.

    K.    The health officer shall once each month submit to the council a report of such matters connected with the health department, as the health officer may deem necessary.

    L.    On or before May 1st, of each year, the health officer shall file with the clerk a statement of the work of the health department during the preceding year, together with such information and suggestions as the health officer shall deem proper.

    M.    The health officer shall also prepare and submit to the council, not later than March 1st of each year, a detailed estimate of the whole cost and expense of providing for and maintaining the health department during the current fiscal year.

    N.    The health officer, when directed by the mayor or city attorney, shall visit, investigate and examine all cases of physical injury or illness claimed or alleged to result from defective streets, alleys, sidewalks and bridges, or from any cause which might render the city liable for damage, and shall report the result of said visit, investigation and examination to the mayor or city attorney. (Prior code § 7.02.030)