The Department shall have power to cause any building or any premises to be cleansed, disinfected, or closed to visitors and prevent persons from entering thereto while any such building or premises contains any person having communicable disease. The Commissioner may direct any nuisance to be abated, or unwholesome matter or substance to be removed from any building or premises, and may prescribe the time and mode of doing so, and take any other measures it may deem necessary and proper to prevent the spread of any communicable disease.
(Prior code § 9-16 (a); Amend Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. I, § 1)
Editor's note – Formerly § 2-112-200. Coun. J. 2-24-21, p. 27657, Art. I, § 1, renumbered former § 2-112-160 as current § 2-112-110.