Chap. 457.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1498 of the Code of Virginia,
which section is in chapter 63 of the said Code, on the subject of the State
board of health and local boards. [S B 286]

Approved March 21, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen hundred and ninety-eight of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1498. Duties and compensation of local health officer
or local secretary.—Each local board of health may elect a health
officer for its city, town or county, but if no local health officer be so
elected the secretary of the local board of health shall act as health
officer for his city, town or county. Every such health officer or secre-
tary acting as such health officer shall have power to enter and inspect
both public and private premises where he has reason to suppose any
nuisance or any contagious or infectious disease exists, when the pro-
tection of the public health demands it. He shall collect and preserve
such vital statistics, including marriages, deaths, and births, as may
be required of him by the State board of health, and shall execute and
enforce the orders of his local board. He shall receive such compensa-
tion as the board of supervisors of the county, or the council of the city
or town may deem proper.