Chap. 6.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1518 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the enforcement of health regulations, so as to make the same
applicable to counties. {H B 23]

Approved February 10, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
fifteen hundred and eighteen of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1518. When the health officer of any county, city or town
shall make complaint under oath, that there is good cause of suspicion
or belief that there is on any lot, or in any house in such county, city
or town, or in any vessel arriving at the port thereof, any nuisance,
source of filth, or cause of sickness, proper to be destroyed or removed,
or one or more persons not in his own place of residence infected
with a contagious or infectious disease, and that he has been refused
admittance into such lot, building, or vessel, any justice of the city, or
of the county, may issue his warrant to the sheriff of the county, ser-
geant of the city, or any constable of either, requiring him to enter
such lot, house, or vessel, and under the direction of such health of-
ficer, remove such infected person, or remove or destroy any such
nuisance, source of filth, or cause of sickness.