Chap. 246.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1498 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to local health officers. [fH B 288]

Approved March 17, 1928

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

Section 1498. 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 of-
ficer or secretary 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 dis-
ease exists, when the protection of the public health demands it.