§ 1303. Nuisances; local boards of health; general powers and duties.
1. Every local board of health and local health officer shall receive
and examine into all complaints made by any inhabitant concerning
nuisances, or causes of danger or injury to life and health within the
health district, and may enter upon or within any place or premises
where nuisances or conditions dangerous to life and health or which are
the cause of nuisances existing elsewhere are known or believed to
exist, and by its members or other persons designated for that purpose,
inspect and examine the same.

2. The local board of health or local health officer having the powers
of a local board of health shall furnish the owners, agents and
occupants of the premises with a written statement of the results and
conclusions of any examination conducted pursuant to the provisions of
sections one thousand three hundred three to one thousand three hundred
five, inclusive, of this chapter.

3. Every local board of health shall order the suppression and removal
of all nuisances and conditions detrimental to life and health found to
exist within the health district.

4. Whenever the commissioner shall by notice to the presiding officer
of any local board of health, direct him to convene such local board to
take certain definite proceedings concerning which the commissioner
shall be satisfied that the action recommended by him is necessary for
the public good, and is within the jurisdiction of such board of health,
such presiding officer shall convene such local board of health, which
shall take the action directed.