Section 308. Local boards of health; general powers and duties

Subject to
  the provisions of this chapter and of the  sanitary  code,  every  local
  board of health shall:
    (a)  prescribe  the duties and powers of the local health officer, who
  shall be its chief executive officer;
    (b) direct the local health officer in the performance of his duties;
    (c) fix the compensation of the local  health  officer  in  accordance
  with  the  provisions  of  section  three  hundred  twenty-three of this
  chapter;
    (d) make and publish, from time to time, such orders and  regulations,
  not  inconsistent  with  the  provisions of the sanitary code, as it may
  deem necessary and proper for the preservation of life  and  health  and
  the execution and enforcement of this chapter in the municipality a copy
  of  such  orders  and  regulations  to  be  filed with the county health
  commissioner, if any, otherwise with the state district health officer;
    (e) make, without publication thereof, such orders and regulations for
  the suppression of nuisances and concerning all  other  matters  in  its
  judgment  detrimental  to  the  public  health  in special or individual
  cases, not of general application, and serve  copies  thereof  upon  the
  owner  or  occupant  of  any  premises  whereon  such nuisances or other
  matters may exist, or upon which may exist the cause of other  nuisances
  to other premises, or cause the same to be conspicuously posted thereon;
  and,
    (f)  maintain  actions  in  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction to
  restrain by injunction violations of  its  orders  and  regulations,  or
  otherwise to enforce such orders and regulations.