(A) Health and Safety Committee.
(1) Creation of Committee. There is hereby created a committee to be known as the Health and Safety Committee. The Chief of Police shall be officer to the Health and Safety Committee, and the City Clerk shall be the Clerk of the Health and Safety Committee. They, together with a competent physician (to be known as Public Health Physician and to be appointed by the Mayor, upon the recommendation of the Health and Safety Committee, shall constitute said Health and Safety Committee.
(2) Rules and regulations. The Health and Safety Committee shall abate all nuisances and make such rules and regulations as may be necessary or proper for the preservation and protection of the public health and comfort of said city.
(3) Wearing apparel; bedding. Wearing apparel or bedding which may be deemed infectious or likely to endanger the public health and safety shall be disinfected or destroyed.
(4) Work and expenses. All work done or expenses incurred in the Health and Safety Committee shall be under the general supervision of the Chairperson of the Health and Safety Committee. All bills or accounts for expenses incurred in health matters shall be presented to him or her for his or her approval, and if found correct, he or she shall certify the same to the City Council for allowance.
(Prior Code, Chapter 8, Article 1)
(B) Health regulations; quarantine.
(1) Physician’s report - contagious disease. Every practicing physician in the city who shall have a patient herein laboring under any contagious, infectious, or pestilential disease shall forthwith make report thereof in writing to the Clerk of the Health and Safety Committee, stating that name and describing the locality of such patient so that he or she may be easily found.
(2) Quarantine-regulations. If any person in the city shall have the smallpox or other malignant and infectious disease, the Clerk of the Health and Safety Committee may, upon information thereof, cause notices with the words, “SMALLPOX HERE,” or other suitable wording, containing the name of such disease in large letters to be posted in some conspicuous place on the house or premises occupied by such person, thereby declaring such house or premises to be under state of quarantine.
(a) It shall be the duty of the occupant or occupants of such house or place to keep such notices so posted as long as directed by said Health and Safety Committee.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to enter, visit, or leave any such place so quarantined without the written permission of the Physician to the Health and Safety Committee until such disease is terminated, the premises thoroughly fumigated and disinfected, and the danger of spreading or communicating such disease has reasonably passed; further, it shall be unlawful for any person to buy, receive, or exchange goods or articles from such quarantined premises or do any other act by which such disease might be caught or transmitted.
(c) This division (B)(2) shall not be construed to prevent any such person or family so isolated and quarantined from having the attendance and treatment of nurses under such protection, precautions, and regulations as will prevent the communication and spread of any such disease, to be approved by the Physician to the Health and Safety Committee. This division (B)(2) shall also not be construed as to prevent relatives and particular or close friends from entering such quarantined place without written permission, but they shall not be permitted to leave again until the person so isolated and quarantined hereunder is permitted to leave, the same as herein provided.
(3) Additional rules. The Health and Safety Committee may also make such other and further regulations respecting quarantined persons as they shall deem meet and proper and as the exigencies of the case may require. The Chief of Police shall superintend and guard the supplying of food, clothing, and other necessaries of the persons quarantined and also take such other reasonable precautions as will prevent the communication and spread of any such disease. Dogs, cats, and other domestic animals in any such quarantined place shall be restrained or impounded and prevented from spreading or carrying any such contagious, infectious, or pestilential disease.
(Prior Code, Chapter 8, Article 2)
Penalty, see § 31.99