"Sec. 2545-A. Salaries of city officials. -The officials of the City shall receive the following salaries, payable from the funds of the City:
"(a) Mayor, nine thousand pesos per annum.
"(b) Vice-Mayor, seven thousand two hundred pesos per annum.
"(c) Members of the city council, four thousand eight hundred pesos each per annum.
"(d) Judge of the municipal court, seven thousand eight hundred pesos per annum.
"(e) City treasurer, city engineer, city attorney, city health officer, city auditor, and chief of police, seven thousand two hundred pesos each per annum.
"(f) City assessor and superintendent of public utilities, six thousand six hundred pesos each per annum.
"(g) Assistant city engineer, assistant city treasurer, and assistant city health officer, six thousand pesos each per annum.
"Sec. 2556. The city health officer. -There shall be a city health officer who shall have charge of the health department. There shall be an assistant city health officer who shall help him in the performance of his duties.1awp++i1 The city health officer shall have the following general powers and duties:
"(a) He shall have general supervision and control over the health and sanitary condition of the city including the cleaning of crematories, cemeteries, stockyards, slaughterhouses, dog pounds, public toilets, markets, and the collection and disposal of garbage, refuse, the contents of the toilets, cesspools, and all other offensive and dangerous substances within the city;
"(b) He shall execute and enforce all laws, ordinances, and regulations relating to the public health;
"(c) He shall recommended to the city council the passage of such ordinances as he may deem necessary for the preservation of the public health;
"(d) He shall cause to be prosecuted all violations of sanitary laws, ordinances, or regulations;
"(e) He shall make sanitary inspections and may be aided therein by such members of the police force of the city or of the Philippine Constabulary as shall be designated as sanitary police by the chief of police or proper constabulary officer;
"(f) He shall perform such other duties with reference to all aspects of health and sanitation of the city as the Secretary of Health shall direct;
"(g) He shall have the authority to charge, at rates to be fixed by the council, fees for sanitation and other related services and supplies furnished by the department to private parties, said collections to accrue to the general fund of the city;
"(h) He shall have control and supervision over laboratories, puericulture centers, clinics and dispensaries, which are being maintained by the city, other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding; and
"(i) He shall keep a civil register for the city and record therein all births, marriages, and deaths with their respective dates."
Approved: June 17, 1961.
