(A) (1) The City Health Officer shall have power to remove or cause to be removed from any hotel, boardinghouse, apartment house, or other building of like character to a proper place designated by the Health Officer all persons sick with any contagious, infectious, or pestilential disease and the officer shall also have power to remove to a proper place designated all things and articles within the city which, in his or her opinion, shall be infected with any manner likely to communicate disease to the inhabitants of the city and the Health Officer may destroy or cause to be destroyed the articles or things when in his or her opinion the safety of the public health requires it.
(2) When articles are destroyed upon orders of the Health Officer, the actual cash value of the articles shall be claimed against the General Fund of the city; provided, that no sick person shall be removed except in the manner provided by law.
(B) (1) Whenever the City Health Officer shall know, suspect, or be informed of the existence of any communicable disease infectious to the public health and there be no physician in attendance, or should any physician while in attendance fail or refuse to report immediately to the Health Officer such case, it shall be the duty of the Officer or his or her deputy to examine the case of alleged communicable disease infectious to the public health.
(2) If, in the judgement of the City Health Officer, the afflicted person should be isolated and quarantined, it shall be the duty of the officer and he or she is empowered to remove the afflicted person. All expenses of the removal shall be paid by the Board of Health out of the General Fund of the city. The removal and maintenance of the afflicted persons shall be in compliance with law.
(Prior Code, § 91.056) Penalty, see § 91.9999