HEALTH DEPARTMENT. ment of such President, and shall be approved by the Mayor and registered in the office of the Comptroller. SEC. 8. Proclamation by Mayor in Time of EpidemicsAuthority of Commissioner and Board of Health in Such Cases, Etc. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the Mayor that any malignant, infectious or contagious disease or epidemic is prevalent in the city, or will probably become so, he may make proclamation of such fact to the inhabitants; and after such proclamation the Health Commissioner, with the approval of the Board of Health, may have power, by order, to take all steps and use all measures necessary to avoid, suppress or mitigate such disease, without the intervention of the Assembly in the same manner and as effectually as the Assembly could itself do by ordinance, and may employ such officers, agents, servants and assistants, establish temporary hospitals, provide necessary furniture, medical attendance and nurses, as in the opinion of the said Commissioner, with the advice and counsel of said Board of Health, may be necessary and advisable: Provided, that the amount expended shall not exceed the appropriation for Health Department. The Health Commissioner shall have and exercise such power until he shall declare, or until the Mayor shall proclaim, that the epidemic or disease, in view of which the proclamation was made, is no longer imminent or prevalent, whereupon the said power shall cease. SEC. 9. Commissioner's Records and Accounts.-Said Health Commissioner shall keep a record of his acts and orders; shall file all petitions, documents and papers beonging to the office, and shall keep a correct account in full of all receipts and expenditures, and shall make rules and regulations for the government of his subordinates. Copies of such records, documents, rules and regulations, when authenticated by his clerk, shall be presumptive evidence in any court of justice of the facts therein contained: Provided, such rules and regulations are not inconsistent with this Charter, or ordinances. SEC. 10. Duties of Physicians in Reference to Burial Certificates. For the purpose of carrying the provisions of this article into effect, every physician who may practice medicine in the City of St. Louis shall, when a patient dies under his care, make out two certificates, stating the name, age, sex, HEALTH DEPARTMENT. color and place of birth, and place and date of death, together with the name of the disease of which said person, died, one of which he shall without delay, deposit in the office of said Health Commissioner, and the other he shall give to the undertaker of the funeral, to be delivered by him to the person who has control of the graveyard in which the body is buried. And if any physician or undertaker refuse or omit to do as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay five dollars to the use of the City of St. Louis, to be recovered as provided for in Section II of this article. SEC. 11. Weekly Report of Interments to be Made to Health Commissioners.-All overseers, sextons or other persons who may have control over public graveyards in the City of St. Louis shall make a weekly report to the Health Commissioner, of all interments during the week in the graveyard, whereof they are such overseer or sexton respectively. Said report shall specify the names and ages of the persons interred, sex, color, and place of birth, and place and date of death, and also the diseases of which said persons died. SEC. 12. Penalty in Case of Burial Without Certificate. If any overseer, sexton, or other person having control of a graveyard, shall permit any person to be interred in said graveyard without a certificate, stating the name, age, sex, color, place of birth, place and date of death, together with the disease of which said person died, signed by the phyisician who attended said person, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, to be recovered as in other cases of misdemeanor, before any court or officer having competent jurisdiction. SEC. 13. Penalty for Failure to Make Weekly Reports of Interments.-If any overseer, sexton or other person charged with the performance of such duty, fail or neglect to make to the Health Commissioner such report of weekly interments, he shall forfeit and pay not less than twenty dollars for every such failure, to be recovered in like manner as provided in the last preceding section. SEC. 14. Record of Proceedings of Board.-The Board of Health shall keep a full and correct record of its proceedings and acts, and the clerk of said Health Commissioner shall act as the clerk of the said Board. SEC. 2. City Officers to Assess School Taxes.-The officers of the City of St. Louis, directed by this Charter to assess and extend the State and city taxes, and to perform other duties relating thereto, shall perform the same duties in regard to taxes levied by the board of president and directors of the St. Louis public schools (Board of Education of St. Louis). SEC. 3. City Collector to Collect School Taxes and to Give Special Bond to Board. -The Collector of the City of St. Louis shall collect all taxes levied by the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis public schools (Board of Education of St. Louis). Said Collector shall give such bond for the faithful performance of his duties to said Board, and account for and pay over to said Board in such manner and at such times, all school taxes collected by him, as the Collector of St. Louis County was required to do under the laws heretofore in force. SEC. 4. Rate of School Taxes to be Fixed by the Board. -The Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis public schools (Board of Education of St. Louis) shall determine the rate of taxation for each year by resolution, a copy of which, duly certified according to law shall be handed to the Collector of the City of St. Louis, and to the Register of said city, on or before the first day of August in each year. * Section 1 of the original Charter is not in force, and has therefore been omitted. The "Board of Education of St. Louis" was created by act of March 23, 1897 (Laws 1897, p. 220). SCHOOLS. SEC. 5. School Taxes Collected in Extended Limits to be Remitted if in Excess of Necessary Revenue.-If the proceeds of taxes levied by the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis public schools (Board of Education of St. Louis), in any one year, on property in the different wards within the newly extended city limits, should prove to be greatly in excess of amounts needed for the purpose of properly carrying on the education of children residing within such extended limits, then said Board shall by resolution remit such excess. A copy of such resolution, properly authenticated, specifying the percentage remitted in the respective wards, shall be filed by the secretary of said Board with the Comptroller of the City of St. Louis, who shall, in extending the tax, make a deduction equal to such percentage of all taxes levied for school purposes on such property. SECTION 1. Sinking Fund Created.-There is hereby created a sinking fund for the City of St. Louis, which shall always be kept separate and distinct from other funds and revenues, and held sacred for the purpose of redemption or purchase of bonds issued by said city, which were outstanding on the seventh day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety, and of the bonds issued for the renewal thereof. SEC. 2. Duty of Assembly as to Appropriations.-The Municipal Assembly shall annually appropriate from the fund designated in this Charter as "interest and public debt revenue" a sum not less than one million two hundred thousand dollars to be used exclusively for the payment of the bonds of the city described in Section 1 of this article, and of the interest thereon. That portion of each annual appropriation not required for the payment of the interest coupons maturing during the respective year, shall be credited to, and shall constitute the sinking fund herein created. SEC. 3. Disbursements to be Made on Requisitions.All disbursements out of the city treasury on account of the sinking fund, shall be upon requisitions of the Comptroller approved by the Mayor; and in all other respects they are to be made in the same manner as other disbursements of the city. SEC. 4. Disposition of Sinking Fund in Hands of Commissioners.-The assets of the sinking fund now under the control of the Board of Fund Commissioners shall be disposed of as follows: The money on hand, and the proceeds of all matured coupons from city bonds, shall be credited to, and be a *This article is an amendment to the Charter, adopted at the charter amendment election, held on June, 1901. |