MANAGER OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

Denver Revised Municipal Code ch. 24, art. II

in effect

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 24-16 General powers and duties.

Sec. 24-16. - General powers and duties. The manager of public health and environment, as provided under the Charter, shall exercise a general supervision over the public health and environment of the city, and shall have full power: (1) To take all measures necessary to promote the health and cleanliness of the city and its inhabitants and visitors; (2) To abate all nuisances related to public health and environment of every description on public and private property; (3) To prevent the introduction or spreading within the city of malignant, contagious and infectious diseases, and to remove, detail, isolate or quarantine any person attacked by or having any such disease, or who has been exposed thereto; (4) To adopt in reference to any such person, any rules, regulations, restrictions or measures that may by the manager be deemed advisable; (5) To procure suitable shelter in cases of public health and environment emergencies and to establish rules and regulations for the government of the same; and (6) To prevent, by such rules or regulations as the manager may deem expedient and adopt, the introduction or the spreading of contagious or infectious diseases within the city and its environs. (7) It shall be unlawful for any person to violate a rule or regulation adopted by the manager pursuant to this section. (Code 1950, § 701.1; Ord. No. 1110-96, § 1, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 516-15, § 9, 8-17-15; Ord. No. 427-18, § 14, 6-11-18)

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 24-17 Executive powers.

Sec. 24-17. - Executive powers. (a) The manager of public health and environment is hereby authorized and empowered to execute, delegate, or otherwise carry out all existing laws, and such laws as may hereafter be passed by the general assembly of the state or the city council, which confer any power or require the performance of any in connection with functions within the purview of Charter provisions relating to public health and environment. (b) The manager of public health and environment is hereby constituted the executive officer of the department of public health and environment. (Code 1950, § 701.2; Ord. No. 1110-96, § 1, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 427-18, § 14, 6-11-18)

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 24-18 General supervisory powers and duties.

Sec. 24-18. - General supervisory powers and duties. (a) It shall be the duty of the manager of public health and environment to inspect as often as practicable the entire city, to superintend the work of any and all persons acting or performing duty under the department of public health and environment, and to see that their duties are performed, and to keep a record of all inspections made. (b) The manager shall instruct all persons employed in the department as to their duties. (c) The manager shall have power to inspect all meat, fowls, fish, vegetables, fruit, and canned goods found for sale within the city and to condemn, seize and destroy such as may be diseased, unsound, stale, or from any cause rendered unfit for food. (d) The manager shall cause to be visited as often as practicable every green grocery, fruit or vegetable market, meat market, fish market or other place within the city where articles of food are kept for sale, and cause to be inspected all articles of food. (e) The manager may appropriate, without charge, samples in sufficient quantity for examination or analysis of all substances sold as medicines, food or drink, or in any way intended for human consumption. (f) The manager shall also have inspected from time to time all restaurants and the kitchens of all hotels, inns or public boarding houses and shall see that the same are kept in a sanitary condition and that the food served, cooked or kept therein is of proper quality and fit for human consumption, and so kept that it shall not become contaminated. (Code 1950, § 701.3; Ord. No. 1110-96, § 1, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 427-18, § 14, 6-11-18)

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 24-19 Appointment of personnel.

Sec. 24-19. - Appointment of personnel. (a) The manager of public health and environment shall have power to appoint any and all necessary aides and assistants for the proper execution of the duties of the office, and to empower any such assistant to act for the manager or as a representative or deputy, and to carry into effect any rule adopted by the department of public health and environment or any provision of this Code or ordinance of the city, or law of the state in relation to public health and environment. (b) The manager shall supervise and control activities of the city regarding the inspection of health and medical facilities, animal protection, the Mayor's Office of HIV Resources Coordination, consumer protection (excepting plan review), child-care licensing, environmental services as described in the environmental services enterprise fund of the fiscal code, and such other activities as are set forth in this Code to be under the manager's purview. (Code 1950, § 702.1; Ord. No. 1110-96, § 1, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 427-18, § 14, 6-11-18; Ord. No. 672-18, § 4, 7-16-18)

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 24-20 Records and books.

Sec. 24-20. - Records and books. (a) The manager of public health and environment shall cause to be kept in suitable books a full and correct record of the manager's rules, acts and proceedings. (b) The manager shall also cause to be kept a full and correct account of all expenses incurred, specifying the amounts, why, when and how incurred and for what purposes applied, and also a correct account of all moneys received by the manager, belonging to the city, over to the manager of finance. (Code 1950, § 701.4; Ord. No. 1110-96, §§ 1, 6, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 775-07, § 69, 12-26-07; Ord. No. 427-18, § 14, 6-11-18)

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 24-21 Disbursements and purchases.

Sec. 24-21. - Disbursements and purchases. (a) Before any money is paid out, the accounts therefor shall be examined and signed and approved by the manager of public health and environment, consistent with city ordinances, payroll procedures, and fiscal rules and the manager of finance shall issue payment for such amount according to law. These accounts shall be subject to audit as the auditor deems necessary. (b) All articles of every kind and description that may be required in any and all of the institutions and departments under the charge of the department of public health and environment shall be purchased as may be provided for by the Charter and ordinances of the city. (Code 1950, § 701.5; Ord. No. 1110-96, § 1, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 775-07, § 70, 12-26-07; Ord. No. 427-18, § 14, 6-11-18; Ord. No. 1207-18, § 5, 11-26-18)

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 24-22 Interference with duties.

Sec. 24-22. - Interference with duties. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to molest, hinder, interfere with, or in any manner prevent the manager of public health and environment or any individual engaged in the department of public health and environment, from performing any duty imposed upon the individual or made by any law or any rule of the manager. (b) It is unlawful for any person to interfere with the manager in any acts done to prevent the spread of contagious diseases, or with any employee of the department in carrying out any directions of the manager in enforcing any of the laws and ordinances of the city in reference to public health and environment. (Code 1950, §§ 704.1, 704.2; Ord. No. 1110-96, § 1, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 427-18, § 14, 6-11-18)

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 24-23 Rules and regulations.

Sec. 24-23. - Rules and regulations. The manager of public health and environment shall, from time to time, as the manager may see fit, compile and publish, in pamphlet form, a full list of the rules and regulations relating to the department. (Code 1950, § 703.1; Ord. No. 1110-96, § 1, 12-16-96; Ord. No. 427-18, § 14, 6-11-18)

Denver Revised Municipal Code § 24-24 Failure to comply with a violation notice, order, or rule and regulation.

Sec. 24-24. - Failure to comply with a violation notice, order, or rule and regulation. (a) It is unlawful for any person to fail to comply with any violation notice or any order issued by the manager, including, without limitation, those issued under the manager's general powers and duties in section 24-16 of the Code. (b) It is unlawful for any person to violate a rule or regulation adopted by the board. (c) Any person who fails to comply with any violation notice, order, rule or regulation may also be subject to a noncriminal civil penalty of not more than nine hundred ninety-nine dollars ($999.00) per violation or the specific civil or administrative penalty amounts set forth in the chapter under which the violation was cited. (d) Enforcement actions are intended to be cumulative in nature. The city may pursue one (1) or more civil, criminal, and administrative actions, fees, fines, sentences, penalties, judgments, and remedies and may do so simultaneously or in succession. (e) Each day a violation exists or continues is a separate violation. (Ord. No. 426-14, § 2, 7-28-14)

Source: City and County of Denver, Revised Municipal Code and Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/co/denver/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIIREMUCO_CH24HESA_ARTIIMAPUHEENFetched: 10/27/2026