Chap. 309.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 58 of Chapter 34 of the Acts
of 1918, entitled “An act to provide a charter and special form of government for
the city of Norfolk and to repeal the existing charter of said city, approved
March 14, 1906, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved respectively
March 12, 1908, March 14, 1908, March 7, 1912, March 13, 1912, March 13, 1914,
March 17, 1914, March 24, 1914, March 25, 1914, March 25, 1914, February
5, 1915, March 4, 1916, March 11, 1916, March 16, 1916, March 17, 1916, March
20, 1916, March 20, 1916, and March 20, 1916, and all other acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with this act so far as they relate to the said city of Norfolk.”,
approved the 7th day of February, 1918, relating to the Department of Public
Welfare of the city of Norfolk. [H 390)

Approved March 29, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That section fifty-eight of an act entiled “An act to provide a
charter and special form of government for the city of Norfolk and to
repeal the existing charter of said city, approved March fourteenth, nine-
teen hundred and six, and the several acts amendatory thereof, approved
respectively March twelfth, nineteen hundred and eight, March four-
teenth, nineteen hundred and eight, March, seventh, nineteen hundred
and twelve, March thirteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, March
thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, March seventeenth, nineteen
hundred and fourteen, March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and four-
teen, March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, March twenty-
fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, February fifth, nineteen hundred
and fifteen, March fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, March eleventh,
nineteen hundred and sixteen, March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and
sixteen, March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, March
twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, March twentieth, nineteen
hundred and sixteen, and March twentieth, nineteen hundred and six-
teen, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act so far
as they relate to the said city of Norfolk.”, approved the seventh day of
February, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 58. General powers and duties——The head of the Depart-
ment of Public Welfare shall be known as the Director of Public Wel-
fare. \

Subject to the supervision and control of the City Manager in all
matters, he shall administer the affairs of his department, which shall
include the management and supervision of all charitable, correctional
and reformatory institutions and agencies belonging to the City; the
use of all recreative facilities of the City, including parks and play-
grounds other than school playgrounds; the management and super-
vision of cemeteries; the maintenance and preservation of shade trees
and shrubbery; the inspection and supervision of all public amusements
and entertainments, and of the places where the same are held; the
enforcement of all laws, ordinances and regulations relative to the
preservation and promotion of the public health; the prevention and
restriction of all disease, including the enforcement in time of threatened
epidemic, of such quarantine and isolation regulations as are appropriate

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to the emergency; the prevention, abatement and suppression of nui-
sances ; the sanitary inspection and supervision of the production, trans-
portation, storage and sale of food and foodstuffs; the inspecting, testing,
measuring and weighing of any commodity or article of consumption
or use within the City, as well as the inspection of weights, measures
and meters used for the purpose aforesaid. The said department shall
keep a complete and accurate system of vital statistics.

The Council shall provide for the establishment and organization
within the said department and subject to the supervision of the director
thereof, of the following divisions or bureaus:

(a) Bureau of Public Health, which shall be charged with the
conservation of the public health, with the supervision, management and
control of all hospitals, municipal clinics and dispensaries, of all detention
or isolation stations for contagious diseases; with the sanitary super-
vision of the City water supply and the sanitary policing and patrol of
the territory constituting the water-shed thereof; the sanitary inspection
of all plumbing, buildings, grounds and premises, including public build-
ings and public school buildings; the physical inspection of the pupils of
public schools, and the administration to such pupils of such medical
and surgical supervision and attention as the Council may by ordinance
provide; the sanitary inspection and supervision of the production, trans-
portation, storage and sale of all foods and foodstuffs and of all articles
and things intended for human consumption; and the keeping of a com-
plete record of vital statistics.

The Superintendent of the Bureau of Public Health shall be the
Health Officer of the City.

He shall be a physician, a graduate of a medical college which is now,
or was at the time of his graduation, recognized by the Virginia State
Board of Medical Examiners, and shall have had training in the ad-
ministration of public health duties.

The appointment of such officer shall not be limited to the inhabitants
of the City or State, unless otherwise required by the Constitution of
the State. He shall give his entire time to the duties of his position;
and shall have such assistants as the Council may by ordinance provide.

(b) Bureau of Markets, which shall be charged with the super-
vision, management and control of all public markets; and with the
collection of all market fees, and the proper accounting for the same.

(c) Bureau of Recreations and Charities, which shall be charged
with the supervision and control of all charitable. correctional and re-
formative institutions belonging to the City, and of all recreational
facilities of the City, including parks and playgrounds, other than school
playgrounds; with the management and supervision of cemeteries and
also with the inspection and supervision of all public amusements and
entertainments and of the places where the same are held.

The Director of Public Welfare shall endeavor to correlate all
private and public charities within said City, and so far as 1s practicable
to avoid duplication of effort.

The Council shall make no appropriation of public funds towards
the maintenance and support of any private charity except upon con-
ditions that the City shall have representation upon the board of directors,
board of managers or other governing body of such private charity,
and that a detailed financial report, showing all receipts and disburse-
ments by such private charity, shall be made to the Director of Public
Welfare at least once in each year. But nothing herein shall be con-
strued to prevent the City from contracting with any private hospital
or similar institution for the care of indigent sick or injured persons,
or for other services.

The Director of Public Welfare, or such other person within said
department as he may designate, shall represent the City on the board
of directors, board of managers or other governing body of any charity
to which public funds shall have been contributed upon the conditions
aforesaid.

(d) Bureau of Standards, which shall be charged with the inspec-
tion and testing of all weights, scales, meters, and measures for the
weighing or measuring of any article or commodity of consumption or
use within the City, including the inspection and testing of the quality
and sufficiency of electric current and gas and meters used in measuring
the same.

The Council may by ordinance add to the functions and duties of
the said several divisions or bureaus; or re-arrange and group the said
functions as said Council may deem expedient.