N.Y. Public Health Law § 308: Local boards of health; general powers and duties

§ 308. Local boards of health; general powers and duties. Subject to

the provisions of this chapter and of the sanitary code, every local

board of health shall:

(a) prescribe the duties and powers of the local health officer, who

shall be its chief executive officer;

(b) direct the local health officer in the performance of his duties;

(c) fix the compensation of the local health officer in accordance

with the provisions of section three hundred twenty-three of this

chapter;

(d) make and publish, from time to time, such orders and regulations,

not inconsistent with the provisions of the sanitary code, as it may

deem necessary and proper for the preservation of life and health and

the execution and enforcement of this chapter in the municipality a copy

of such orders and regulations to be filed with the county health

commissioner, if any, otherwise with the state district health officer;

(e) make, without publication thereof, such orders and regulations for

the suppression of nuisances and concerning all other matters in its

judgment detrimental to the public health in special or individual

cases, not of general application, and serve copies thereof upon the

owner or occupant of any premises whereon such nuisances or other

matters may exist, or upon which may exist the cause of other nuisances

to other premises, or cause the same to be conspicuously posted thereon;

and,

(f) maintain actions in any court of competent jurisdiction to

restrain by injunction violations of its orders and regulations, or

otherwise to enforce such orders and regulations.