3-1-2: CONTAGIOUS DISEASES:
   A.   Report Required: Every physician called to care for or treat a person afflicted with a contagious disease or any epidemic disease shall make a report of the same within twenty four (24) hours after being called in to the committee on public health. In case no physician is in attendance it shall be the duty of the person in charge of or having the care of such person to make a report within twenty four (24) hours from the time the disease is recognized. (1970 Code §456)
   B.   Quarantine: The committee on public health shall have charge of the enforcement of the quarantine rules. It shall have the power and the authority to place any premises, within which a contagious or epidemic disease occurs, under quarantine, and the health officer shall determine the time when the quarantine ends. (1970 Code §457)
   C.   Fumigation: Premises which have been quarantined in accordance with the terms of the preceding subsection shall be thoroughly fumigated or otherwise freed from all risk of contagious disease, under the supervision of the committee on public health before the quarantine shall end. (1970 Code §458)
   D.   Spreading Contagion: It shall be unlawful for any person to spread, wilfully or carelessly, any contagious disease or to so cause the spread of the same. (1970 Code §459)
   E.   Deliveries To Quarantined Premises: No person engaged in the delivery of food or drink intended for human consumption shall enter any premises which are quarantined because of the existence of a contagious or epidemic disease. No containers or bottles shall be removed from any such premises until the termination of quarantine, and no such container which has been left at such premises during the quarantine shall be placed in use for carrying food or drink until it has been thoroughly sterilized. (1970 Code §460)
   F.   Penalty: Any person violating any of the provisions of this section or violating any of the reasonable rules of the committee on public health with regard to quarantined premises, or disturbing or disregarding any notice of quarantine placed by or under the direction of the committee on public health, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense; and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues. (1970 Code §461; amd. 1990 Code)