Section 324. Local health officer; general powers and duties

1. In
  addition to such other duties as may be lawfully imposed  upon  him  and
  subject  to  the provisions of this chapter and the sanitary code, every
  health officer shall:
    (a) make an annual sanitary survey and maintain  sanitary  supervision
  over the territory within his jurisdiction;
    (b)  make  a  sanitary inspection periodically of all places of public
  assemblage, and report thereon to those responsible for the  maintenance
  of such places of public assemblage;
    (c)  promote  the  spread  of information as to the causes, nature and
  prevention of prevalent diseases, and the preservation  and  improvement
  of health;
    (d)  take  such  steps  as  may be necessary to secure prompt and full
  reports by physicians of reportable diseases  and  prompt  and  complete
  registration of births and deaths;
    (e) enforce within his jurisdiction the provisions of this chapter and
  the sanitary code; and,
    (f)  attend  conferences  called by the commissioner or his authorized
  representatives.
    2. The health officer may employ such persons as shall be necessary to
  enable him to carry into effect the orders and regulations of the  board
  of  health  and the provisions of this chapter and of the sanitary code,
  and fix their  compensation  within  the  limits  of  the  appropriation
  therefor.
    3.  A health officer appointed for two or more towns or villages shall
  have and exercise in each such town or village all the  rights,  powers,
  duties  and  obligations  conferred  and  imposed  by  law upon a health
  officer therein, in the same  manner  as  though  appointed  separately,
  rather than jointly, by the local boards of health for each such town or
  village.