Arcadia Municipal Code Part 1 Health Officer

The Health Officer, as used in this Article, shall mean that person employed and designated by the City to enforce any of the provisions of this Article or the person employed and designated by any public agency with which the City has contracted or may contract for the enforcement of any one or more Chapters of this Article.

The Health Officer shall have the right to enter upon any lot, yard, enclosure or other premises for the purpose of inspecting such premises or other place to ascertain if a violation of any of the provisions of this Article shall exist, or if the Health Officer has reason to believe any such violation exists. Whenever any such violation shall be found to exist in the opinion of the Health Officer, he shall notify in writing any person owning or having control of, or acting as agent for, leasing or occupying, such premises, or other place, to correct the conditions which are in violation of this Article within a reasonable time to be stated in such notice.

No person shall refuse, resist or attempt to resist the entrance of the Health Officer into any railway car, vehicle, building, room, lot or other place, or portion or room thereof, in the performance of his duties, or refuse to obey any lawful order of the Health Officer made in the performance of his duties within the power conferred upon him by any law or by this Article.