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Sec. 5. Same—Rules and regulations; penalty for violation.


The joint health board shall have power to adopt and enforce
such reasonable rules and regulations as they may deem necessary
for health and sanitation not in conflict with this chapter


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and state law, but such rules and regulations shall be subject
to the approval of the council and spread upon the ordinance
book and shall be published in a newspaper published in the
city; but in case of epidemics, rules and regulations for suppressing
the same shall immediately become effective.

It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any such rules
and regulations and upon conviction of the person so offending,
he shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor
more than fifty dollars for the first offense and not less than
twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each
subsequent offense. (Code 1932, § 367.)