Page 1 Ordinance #1890 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE MOBILE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT RULES AND STATE BOARD OF HEALTH RABIES REGULATIONS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PRICHARD, ALABAMA, that the City Code of the City of Prichard, Alabama is hereby amended to provide for the enforcement of Mobile County Health Department Rules, as defined by the Alabama Department of Public Health pursuant to Title 22, Health and Environment Control, Code of Alabama (1975), as amended, for prosecution of violations of these rules, within the police jurisdiction of the City, in the Environmental Court Division of the Prichard Municipal Court as follows: 1. (a.) (b.) (c.) (d.) ENFORCEMENT The Mobile County Health Department Rules as defined by the Alabama Department of Public Health pursuant to Title 22, Health and Environment, Code of Alabama (1975), as amended, are the health regulations of the City of Prichard. The provisions of Alabama Code (1975) Section 3-7A-15, and the regulations of the Alabama State Board of Health promulgated thereunder relating to the control of rabies in animals are adopted as an ordinance of the City of Prichard. The Mobile County Health Officer is the Health Officer of the City of Prichard, pursuant to Title 22, Health and Environmental, Code of Alabama (1975), as amended. Any person, association, partnership or corporation found guilty of violating any provision of the Rules of the Mobile County Health Department, as adopted pursuant to state law, or the provisions of Code of Alabama (1975) Section 3- Page 2 7A-15, and the regulations of the Alabama State Board of Health promulgated thereunder relating to the control of rabies in animals within the city limits, or its police jurisdiction, shall be prosecuted by way of municipal offense ticket in accordance with the jurisdiction of the Environmental Court Division of the Prichard Municipal Court and shall be fined or punished as set out in the schedule of funds and penalties of the City Code of the City of Prichard , Alabama. (e.) | Each days continuance of any activity (or failure to act) prohibited by this ordinance and incorporated Mobile County Health Department Rules shall constitute a separate offense. 2. REPEALER. All City Code Sections and Ordinances or parts of City Code Sections and Ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed. 3. SEVERABILITY. If any section, paragraph, clause, phrase, or word of this ordinance is for any reason held or declared to be unconstitutional, inoperative or void, such holding of invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this ordinance, and it shall be construed to have been the intent of the City Council of the City of Prichard to pass this ordinance without such unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperative part therein, and the remainder of this ordinance shall be deemed and held to be valid as if such parts had not-been included therein. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption and publication as required by law. It shall not be necessary for the said Mobile County Health Department Rules to be published in a newspaper, nor shall they be spread at length upon the minutes of the council. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect within the City of Page 3 Prichard and its police jurisdiction. Adopted this it day of Debuner, 2001. Cb ns City Clerk Se E. Ei} [po