Section 360. Certain cities; department of public health; establishment  


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  • 1.
      The common council or similar legislative body of  each  city  having  a
      population  of less than one hundred seventy-five thousand which has not
      by special law established a department of health, is hereby  authorized
      and  empowered  by  ordinance  to abolish its board of health and in its
      place to create, establish and maintain a department of public health.
        2. The commissioner of health in cities having a population  of  fifty
      thousand to one hundred seventy-five thousand, and the health officer in
      cities having a population of less than fifty thousand shall be the head
      of such department.