cer shall make affidavit before the judge of any court of record, the judge of probate, or any justice of the peace of said county that said forceful resistance has been made, or threatened, whereupon, the officer before whom said affidavit has been made shall forthwith issue his warrant directed to the sheriff, or to any bonded constable of said county, commanding said sheriff, or constable, to remove or abate under the direction of said health officer said insanitary condition, or source of infection, or offensive or indecent material or thing, or to remove said afflicted person, and it shall be the duty of said sheriff, or constable, to whom said warrant shall be delivered to promptly execute the same. In executing every such warrant the said sheriff, or constable, shall have the right to enter by force into any such lot, piece of ground, house, or vessel, or upon such pond, lake or stream. Section 1146. (723) INSPECTION OF PLACES WHERE FOOD IS SOLD. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH TO PRESCRIBE REGULATIONS FOR INSPECTION OF. The state board of health shall prescribe rules and regulations for the inspection and operation of all grocery stores, vegetable stores, delicatessen stands, meat stands, restaurants, dining cars, lunch stands, eating places, hotels, rooming houses and public dining rooms, soda fountains, bottling plants, tourist camps, abbattoirs and packing plants, oyster plants including shipping of same and any and all other food handling establishments and other like places, together with pantries, kitchens and yards belonging thereto, and shall furnish copies of said rules and regulations to county boards of health and to county health officers, whereupon it shall be the duty of said county boards of health and county health officers, to enforce such rules, and the county health officer, or if there be none, the county board of health, is hereby given authority to close any of the places named in this section which are kept in an insanitary condition, or if the owner or manager of same violates said rules and regulations. When such place is closed to the public by the county health officer, it shall not be reopened until his written permission is obtained. In the event that any establishment named in this section should be closed by order of the county health officer the owner thereof shall have the right to appeal to the county board of health. Such board shall investigate such cases and affirm or reverse the action of the county health officer. Once every month the county health officers may announce publicly all places inspected during the previous month which have been found in good sanitary condition. In any particular case under this section, the state board of health and the state health officer, may, if in their discretion the special circumstances make it advisable, take out of the hands of the county board of health and the county health officer the enforcement of this section and proceed themselves to enforce it, the state board of health acting in the place of the county board of health and the state health officer in the place of the county health officer. Approved September 9, 1927. GENERAL LAWS (AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS) OF THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA PASSED AT THE SPECIAL SESSION OF 1926 HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY, CHARLES. S. McDOWELL, JR., Lieutenant-Governor. JAS. B. ELLIS, President Pro Tem. of the Senate. HUGH D. MERRILL, Speaker of the House. Montgomery, Alabama. The Brown Printing Company, 1927. |