newed, enlarged, or kept in violation of any ordinance or regulation made for the prevention of fires, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and may be removed by the direction of the board of fire commissioners.

SEC. 155. The officers, firemen, and employes of the department shall receive such compensation as the common council may prescribe; and during their term of service shall be exempt from serving on juries. The common council may provide suitable compensation for an injury which any fireman may receive to his person or property in consequence of the performance of his duty at any fire.

SEC. 156. The engineer in charge of the department at any fire, with the concurrence of the mayor or any two fire commissioners, may cause any building to be pulled down or destroyed when deemed necessary, in order to arrest the progress of the fire, and no action shall be maintained against any person or against the city therefor; but if any person having an interest in the building shall apply to the common council within three months after the fire, for damages or compensation for such building the common council shall pay him such compensation as may be just. They may ascertain such damage by agreement with the owner, or by the appraisal of the jury, to be selected in the same manner as in the case of juries to appraise damages for taking private property for public use; and the common council may cause the amount of any damages determined upon to be defrayed by a special assessment upon the property which in their opinion was protected or benefited by the destruction of such building; but no damages shall be paid for the amount of any loss which would have probably occurred to such if it had not been pulled down or destroyed.

SEC. 157. The said fire department, its officers and men, with their engines and apparatus of all

kinds, shall have the right of way going to any fire or in any highway, street or alley, over any and all vehicles of every kind, except those carrying the United States mail; and any person who shall refuse the right of way, or in any manner obstruct any fire apparatus, or any of said officers and men while in the performance of their duties, or shall drive over or cut any hose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to punishment for the same. It shall be lawful for said board to send an engine, with hose and apparatus, to the relief of any community in the vicinity of Ann Arbor.

SEC. 158. Whenever a person or corporation shall be desirous of erecting or altering any building within the fire limits of said city, he, she or they shall make application at the office of the chief of the fire department for a permit for that purpose, and shall furnish for the examination of said chief a written statement of the proposed location, the dimensions, the manner of constructing the proposed building or alteration, the material to be used, the estimated cost, and the contract for completion. It shall be the duty of the chief, on receiving such application to inspect the location, and to fully examine the question of granting such permit, and if he shall be satisfied that the building or alteration proposed will comply with the ordinances of the city; and the erection of the same will in any other respect be proper, he shall, subject to the approval of the board of fire commissioners, give such applicant a permit therefor, and such applicant shall pay to the chief the sum of one dollar, if the estimated cost of said building or alteration shall be less than one thousand dollars; two dollars if it shall be more than one thousand dollars and less than five thousand dollars, and for every additional one thousand dollars over five thousand dollars, the further sum of fifty cents. All money so received by the chief shall be paid by him into the city treasury at

least once a month, and a detailed statement thereof, giving the date when, and the name of the person from whom received, shall be filed in the office of the city clerk.

SEC. 159. It shall be the duty of the chief of the fire department to visit and inspect each building which may be in the course of erection, construction or alteration within the fire limits of said city, and to see that such house or building is being erected, constructed or altered according to the provisions of the city ordinances and the permit so granted, and in a manner adapted for the security thereof against fires, and the safety of the occupants. His visits and inspection may be repeated from time to time until such house or building is completed, when he shall, if requested, furnish the owner or [contractor] constructor with a certificate that said house or building is in all respects conformable to law and properly constructed.

SEC. 160. It shall be the duty of the board of fire commissioners to cause the chief of the department to examine into the cause, circumstances and origin of all fires occurring in said city, by which any building, erection or valuable personal property shall be accidentally or unlawfully burned, destroyed or damaged, and to especially inquire and examine whether such fire was the result of carelessness or the act of [an] incendiary. The chief of the fire department may take the testimony of all persons supposed to be cognizant of any facts connected with such fire; said testimony shall be reduced to writing and shall be transmitted to the board of fire commissioners, together with a report by the chief of the fire department embodying his opinion in regard thereto. The chief of the fire department shall also report to the chief of police, to the prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw county and to the owners of property or other persons interested in the subject matter of such investigation,

any facts or circumstances which he may have ascertained which shall in his opinion require attention from or by said officers or persons.

The Public Health

SEC. 161.* There shall be a board of health in said city which shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be a competent physician; they shall be appointed by the Mayor, by and with the consent of the common council, for the full term of three years; but the members shall be subject to classification in such manner that one term shall expire each year; one of the members of said board, in addition to the powers and duties incumbent upon him as a member of said board, shall be city health officer and shall exercise such powers and duties as shall be from time to time conferred upon him by said board of health and the common council of said city. Said city health officer shall in all cases be a competent physician and the mayor shall designate which of the members of said board shall be city health officer, and such member of the board of health shall continue to discharge the duties of city health officer during the term for which he was appointed as a member of said board. Such city health officer shall be executive officer of the board of health, shall perform such duties of inspection as may be necessary for the information and guidance of said board and shall do the work of fumigating in all cases where it is necessary for it to be done within said city. The members of the said board. of health shall receive such compensation as the common council may allow.

SEC. 162. The said board shall have and possess all the powers given by the general statutes of this state to boards of health in townships, in addition to those herein particularly enumerated, except when

*As amended March 5, 1919.

the powers granted would conflict with the provisions contained in this charter. Said board of health shall have power and it shall be their duty to take such measures as they shall deem effectual to prevent the entrance of any pestilential or infectious disease into the city; to stop, detain, and examine for that purpose every person coming from any place infected or believed to be infected with such a disease; to establish, maintain, and regulate a pest-house or hospital, at some place within the city or not exceeding three miles beyond its limits or bounds; to cause any person not being a resident of the city who shall be or is suspected of being infected with any such disease, to be sent to such pest-house or hospital; to cause any resident of the city infected to be removed to such pest-house or hospital if the health physician and two other physicians of the city, including the attending physician of the sick person, if he have one, shall certify that the removal of such resident is necessary for the public health: Provided, It can be done with safety to the patient; to remove from the city or destroy any furniture, wearing apparel, goods, wares and merchandise, or other articles of property of any kind, which shall be suspected of being tainted or infected with any pestilence, or which shall be in or likely to pass into such state as to generate and propagate disease; to abate all nuisances of every description which are or may be injurious to the public health in any way or in any manner they may deem expedient, and from time to time to do all acts, make all regulations, and pass all ordinances which they shall deem necessary or expedient for the preservation of health and suppression of disease in the city and to carry into effect and execute the powers hereby granted.

SEC. 163. The owner, driver, conductor or person in charge of any stage coach, railroad car or any other public conveyance which shall enter the city having