Text of the provision

Art. 700. The district health officer shall take care that one or all of the remedies against a public nuisance are availed of.

Civil Code of the Philippines, Republic Act No. 386, approved June 18, 1949, effective August 30, 1950. Reproduced in full; verified verbatim against the LawPhil and ChanRobles official-text renderings.

What this article means

The district health officer is charged with seeing to it that one or all of the remedies against a public nuisance are actually availed of.

The duty this article places on the district health officer is administrative rather than judicial: instead of waiting for a private party to act, the officer is expected to actively see that at least one of the available remedies against a public nuisance is pursued to its conclusion. This complements the officer’s role under the surrounding articles, where the choice of remedy and, in appropriate cases, the decision to abate the nuisance without going to court are also entrusted to that same official.

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