Executive Order 2014

To Reorganize the Board of Health of The Canal Zone.

By virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby establish the following Executive Order for the Canal Zone:

1. There is hereby established a Board of Health, under the jurisdiction of the Health Department, consisting of the following officials heretofore appointed by the Governor:

The Chief Health Officer, who shall be the Chairman of the Board, the General Inspector, the Chief Quarantine Officer, the Chief of Laboratories, and the Chief of the Division of Municipal Engineering.

Three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and each member of the Board shall be entitled to a vote and, in the event of a tie, the presiding officer shall cast the deciding vote.

The Governor shall fix the time for the regular meetings of the Board, and the Chief Health Officer may call special meetings of the Board when he deems it necessary.

2. The Board of Health shall have power to make sanitary rules and regulations for the Canal Zone, not inconsistent with existing laws or orders, which rules must be approved by the Governor before they become effective, and the Board shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to it by the Chief Health Officer from time to time.

3. Sections 13, 14, 15 and 16 of Act 8 of the Isthmian Canal Commission, of September 2, 1904, are hereby repealed.

4. This order shall take effect from and after this date.

Woodrow Wilson.

The White House, 6 August, 1914.