§ 375. Certain cities; actions to restrain nuisances. The commissioner
of health or health officer of a city having a population of less than
one hundred seventy-five thousand, is authorized, by and with the advice
and consent of the corporation counsel or city attorney, in the name of
the city to maintain actions to restrain the threatened performance or
the continued performance of any act contrary to his orders, directions,
decisions or ordinances, and to restrain and abate nuisances, and for
the purpose of obtaining a temporary injunction in any such action no
undertaking shall be required.