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1969-017ORDINANCE #0 -69 -17 AN ORDINANCE CREATING A BOARD OF HEALTH WHEREAS, due to the substantial growth of the Village of Buffalo Grove during the past several years and the increased need for a Board of Health to protect the Health, Safety and Welfare of the Village, and WHEREAS, it is to the best interests and to the advantage of the Village to have a Board of Health, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE, ILLINOIS: SECTION ONE: There is hereby created a Board of Health for the Village of Buffalo Grove. SECTION TWO: The Board of Health of the village shall consist of not less than five (5) nor more than seven (7) members appointed by the Mayor, by and with the consent of the Village Board. Terms of appointment shall be for a period of three years with appointments staggered throughout the years. No more than two (2) members shall be appointed in any one year unless required by death, resignation or other unusual circumstances of one or more members. One member may be a physician, legally licensed to practice in the State of Illinois and practicing or residing within the Village. The other members may be a dentist, nurse, pharmacist, registered sanitarian or other person in allied medical speciality, with the exception that if the foregoing persons are not available • a competent and interested person of the community shall be appointed in their place. (The Health Officer of the Village will be an official member of the Board and will attend its meetings.) .SECTION THREE: One member of the Board of Health shall be elected annually by its members to act as President. It shall be his duty to conduct the meetings and to transmit any recommend- ations for proposed rules, regulations and decisions of the Board to the corporate authorities. The Board shall meet not less than quarter - annually and shall keep a written record of all minutes of the meetings and all recommendations for proposed rules, regulations and orders, and to manage, all other duties as the Board may pre- scribe. A copy of all minutes of the meetings shall be sent to the Mayor and members of the Village Board. A majority of the mem- bers of the Board shall constitute a quorum thereof, and any rec- ommendations adopted by the majority thereof shall be as valid and effective as if adopted by all its members. SECTION FOUR: The Board of Health shall have general supervision of the interests of the health of the people of the Village. The Board shall cooperate with and assist the Department of Health of the State of Illinois and its duly constituted officers and representatives in enforcing the rules and regulations for con- trol of communicable diseases promulgated by the department, and such other rules and regulations of the State and Counties and Village as may be related to the sanitation and health of the Village. Such Board of Health of the Village shall have authority to make recommendations to the Mayor and Village Board for the passage of - 2 - • • ordinances pertaining to reasonable rules, regulations and orders, as they may from time to time deem necessary for the preservation and improvement of the public health and for the suppressing of disease, including recommendations for the regulation of the trans- portation of the remains of deceased persons as covered by statute. The Board of Health shall also give to the Village authorities such professional advice and information as may be required or requested to preserve the public health. SECTION FIVE: This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval as provided by law. AYE S: 4 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: 3 PASSED and APPROVED this 27th day of October, A.D., 1969. ATTEST: Village C erk Village esident - 3 - �t- CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS, INC. A Corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY That it is the publisher of Wheeling Herald That said_ Wheeling Herald i a secular newspaper and has been published Tri- weekly in the Village Wheeling County of Cook and State of Illinois, continuously for more than one year prior to, on and since the date of the first publication of the notice hereinafter referred to and is of gen- eral circulation throughout said Village, County and State. I further certify that Tilheeling Herald is a newspaper as defined in "an Act to revise the law in relation to notices" as amended by Act approved July 17, 1959 —III. Revised Statutes, Chap. 100, Para. 1 and 5. That a notice of which the annexed printed slip is a true copy, was published in said °Iheeling Herald on the 3rd day of November , A.D. 196 —. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, the said PADDOCK PUBLICA- TIONS, Inc., has caused this certificate to be signed and its corporate seal affix- ed hereto, by FRANCIS E. STITES, its Secretary, at Arlington Heights, Illinois, 3rd day of November A.D. 196 g PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS, INC. Secretary.