HomeMy WebLinkAbout6835ORDINANCE NO. 6835.
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A TYPHUS CONTROL PiOGRAM FOR LITTLE
ROCK, ARKANSAS, CREATING VARIOUS POSITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AND
CREATING A REVOLVING FUND FOR TYPHUS CONTROL, DECLARING.AN
EMERGENCY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that Little Rock needs to
inaugurate a program to control the spread of typhus, now therefore,'
BE IT ORDAIN T3 BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF—' LITTLE ROCK, AR NSAS.
SECTION 1. The position of Typhus Control Inspector in the
Health Department is hereby created. The person chosen to fill said
position shall be chosen by the Civil Service Commission in the
manner provided by law and shall receive as monthly salary such
amount between One Hundred Seventy Five Dollars and Two Hundred
Twenty Five Dollars per month as may be fixed by the City Health
Offi.cer with the advice and consent of the City Council Health
Committee, as said Committee may now or hereafter be constituted.
The duties of said position shall be to make inspection for the
need of typhus control and all other inspection for the purposes of
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s. determining the aiiequacsy of -typhus control efforts. Said Ispeet�.
shall be directly answerable to the City Health Officer or to such
other person as the City Health Officer may designate, and shall
perform the above duties set out and any other that may be assigned
by the City Health Officer. The Inspector's salary shall be paid
out of any appropriate fund of the City of Little Rock.
SECTION 2. The City Health Officer is further empowered to
employ from time to time such casual or temporary employees as in
his opinion may be necessary to do rat- proofing and rat ]a,91soning
in the Typhus Control Program. Such a person so employed shall
receive. as monthly salary the amount fixed by the City Health' 'Officer
wit h.the advice of the City Council Health
any said salary shall not be`less than One
or more than One Hundred Fifty Dollars per
sistent with the scale of wages prevailing
Rock. The salaries of such persons shall
Committee, provided that
Hundred Dollars per,-* I outt,
month, and shall be c
for such workmen in Little
be paid out of the Little
Rook Typhus Control Fund mentioned in Section 3 of this Ordinance.
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SECTION 3. The sum of Nine Thousand Dollars is hereby appro-
priated out-of the General Funds of the City of Little Rock for pay-
ment to the Little Rock Typhus Control Fund, which money together
with any other money that may come into said Fund, shall constitute
a permanent revolving fund to cover the interim cost of any Typhus
Control Program undertaken by the City of Little Rock pending re-
payment to the Fund by persons benefited from such program. The
Mayor and City tCla`hW are hereby authorized to i,4sue ►�
of'the City, drawn on the General Funds of the City, payable to aaid
Little Rock Typhus Control Fund. There is hereby transferred to
said fund that equipment and those materials received by the City
as it's distributive share in the distribution of the Typhus Control }
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Fund originally collected by the Lions Club of Little Rock. j
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SECTION 4. The City Health Officer and the City Collector Are
hereby authorized to handle all transactions affecting the Little
Rook Typhus Control Fund, including cashing the Warrant mentioned in
Seotion3 of this ordinance; and said officials shall give to the City
Council a report once every three months of the transactions affecting
said Fund.
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SECTION 5• The City Health Officer shall give bond in the sum "
of Ten Thousand Dollars, written with some approved Surety Company,
for the faithful administration of the money and /or materials handled
by him in the Little Rock Typhus Control Fund.
SECTION 69 Because the City Council has found that the disease
of typhus is increasing in it's incidence in or about the City of
Little Rock and because such disease contains great and terrible ' ,
danger for the people of this Community and because it is vital that
efforts be undertaken immediately to prevent the spread of this disease,
because the above program is found to be urgently needed to pry'
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the spread of this disease, an emergency is hereby declared to exist,
and this ordinance is found to be necessary for the protection, of the.
public peace, health and safety and shall be in-full force awd elfsot
from and after its peg "ssage.
PASSED: October 22, 1945, APPROVED:
Mayor
ATTEST:
Ci Clerk