11/23/2020 Ordinances 9803ORDINANCE NO. 9803
An emergency ordinance pursuant to the City of Grand Island's authority to pass
ordinances and make regulations to serve the general health or the city, prescribe rules for the
prevention, abatement, and removal of nuisances as well as the authority to make such
regulations as to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious, infectious or malignant
diseases in the City of Grand Island pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-238, § 16-240 AND § 16-
246; to amend Chapter 2 Article VII of the City Code to add Sections 2-60 thru 2-63; to clarify
and/or make general corrections to various code sections, to repeal any ordinances and
resolutions or parts thereof in conflict herewith; and to provide for publication and the effective
date of the ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA.
SECTION 1. Article VII. Sections 2-60 thru 2-63 of the Grand Island City Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Article VII. Board of Health.
§2-60. Board of Health; created; composition; appointment; jurisdiction; Clerk.
(a) A Board of Health is hereby created in and for the City, which board shall consist of
five (5) members as follows:
The Mayor, who shall be Chairman of the board; a physician who shall be
appointed by the Mayor and who shall be Medical Adviser of the board; the
Chief of Police who shall be Secretary and Quarantine Officer; the President of
the Council; and one other member at large who shall be appointed by the
Mayor.
(b) The Board of Health may make regulations to prevent the introduction and spread
of contagious, infectious, or malignant diseases into the city.
(c) The Mayor shall see that all rules and regulations of the Board of Health, passed
pursuant to Section 2-61 shall be enforced over all places within this City. The City
Clerk shall be Clerk of such board but not a member thereof.
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November 23, 2020 tt City Attorney
ORDINANCE NO. 9803 (Cont.)
§2-61. - Quorum; rules and regulations.
A majority of such board shall constitute a quorum and shall enact rules and
regulations, having the force and effect of law, to safeguard the health of the people of such
city and prevent nuisances and unsanitary conditions, enforce the same, and provide fines and
punishments for the violation of such rules and regulations.
§2-62. Records.
The Board of Health shall keep a record of all their transactions, orders, notices and of
such other action taken by it, which records shall be filed with the City Clerk and are hereby
made public records of the City and shall be accessible to the public for inspection in the office
of the City Clerk at all reasonable hours.
§2-63. - Vacancies in office.
In the absence or disability of the Medical Advisor, the Mayor may appoint some other
physician to act in the place of such Medical Adviser during such absence or disability; and to
the end that the Board may at all times be in position to function and perform its duties, there
shall be a substitute appointed for any member thereof when absent, unable or disqualified to
act; and the substitute so appointed shall have the power to do each and every act as the regular
member thereof while serving on the Board.
SECTION 2. Any ordinance or resolution or parts of ordinances or resolution in conflict
herewith be, and hereby are, repealed.
SECTION 3. This emergency ordinance shall be in force and take effect on November
23, 2020, immediately upon proclamation of the Mayor and posting on the website of the City of
Grand Island. Additional notice shall be given by publication in one issue of the Grand Island
Independent.
Enacted: November 23, 2020.
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