§ 65-103 — Special sanitary service

The secretary of health and environment shall when he thinks best to do so appoint committees, or engage suitable persons to render special sanitary service, to make or supervise practical or scientific investigations and examinations requiring expert skill, and to prepare plans and report thereon. It is hereby made the duty of all officers and agents having the control, charge or custody of any public structure, work, ground or erection, or any plan, description, outline drawings, charts thereof or relating thereto, made, kept or controlled under any public authority, to permit and facilitate any examination and inspection ordered by said secretary, and such other officer or person as may at any time be by said secretary authorized, may without fee or hindrance enter, examine and survey all grounds, erections, vehicles, structures, apartments, buildings, and places; but the legislature shall first determine the amount which shall be expended during the year for such special sanitary work, and the expenditures shall not exceed the amount thus determined and set apart for the year.

Legislative History

L. 1885, ch. 129, § 6; R.S. 1923, 65-103; L. 1974, ch. 352, § 3; July 1.