§ 27. Board of health.

The town council is authorized and empowered to create and establish a board of health of the town independently or in conjunction and cooperation with the Health Department of Chatham County and to consist of such members as the council may determine. The mayor and the Chatham County health officer shall serve as members of the board of health, and all remaining members shall be residents of the Town of Thunderbolt. The board shall have full power to execute all sanitary measures necessary for the preservation of the public health and for the prevention of generation and introduction of infectious and contagious diseases. The board shall likewise exercise absolute powers over the subject of quarantine, personal, animal or otherwise. The town council shall by appropriate ordinance fix penalties for violation of rules and regulations of the board, and the recorder's court of the town shall have jurisdiction to try and punish all persons charged with and convicted of violation of such ordinances or violation of the regulations of the board of health. Rules and regulations for quarantine and governing the conduct of all persons with reference thereto, which rules and regulations may be promulgated and established by the board of health, shall have the force and effect of an ordinance of the Town of Thunderbolt and violation thereof shall constitute violation of an ordinance of the town.