25.0102 Duty of Director.
It shall be the duty of the Director to prepare and to enforce when directed by the Governor, regulations on the following subjects:
(1) prevention and control of public health nuisances:
(2) sanitary practices and quality controls for village and municipal water supplies:
(3) location of private water supplies;
(4) watersheds used for public water supplies;
(5) disposal of excreta, sewage, or other wastes;
(6) disposal of garbage and refuse;
(7) plumbing;
(8) rodent control and use of rodenticides;
(9) insect control and use of insecticides:
(10) pollution of seashore, streams, lakes, and other waters;
(11) drainage and impounded waters in connection with the control of arthropods of public health importance:
(12) production, handling, processing, and sale of food products and drinks;
(13) restaurants and all other places serving or preparing food or drinks for the public:
(14) food handlers:
(15) toilets and washrooms in all public places and places of employment:
(16) bathing and swimming places;
(17) public health requirements for publicly and privately owned schools, public buildings, airports, seaports, warehouses, storage areas, and serving of commercial carriers;
(18) all places used for the incarceration of prisoners and inmates of governmental institutions;
(19) control of communicable diseases and protection of the public health;
(20) health certificates for persons serving the public:
(21) control of rabies and other zoonosis;
(22) industrial hygiene;
(23) any other matter pertaining to public health in American Samoa.
History: 1972, PL 12-44 § 1.