CHAPTER 9.12
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

SECTION:

9.12.010: Report Requirements

9.12.020: Quarantine Rules

9.12.030: Disinfection; Clothing And Other Objects

9.12.040: Disinfection; Vehicles

9.12.010: REPORT REQUIREMENTS:

It shall be the duty of every physician or other person caring for the sick in the city to make a report to the board of health immediately after such person becomes aware of the existence of any case of a communicable disease in his charge, and it shall be the duty of each and every person, owner, agent, manager or superintendent of any public or private institution, or dispensary, hotel, boarding house or rooming house to make a report in like manner of any inmate, occupant or boarder suffering from any communicable disease. (1999 Code)

9.12.020: QUARANTINE RULES:

The board of health is authorized and empowered to make all necessary rules to properly quarantine any person who has a contagious disease or who has been exposed to a contagious disease, and to prescribe the period of quarantine for the various diseases. (1999 Code)

9.12.030: DISINFECTION; CLOTHING AND OTHER OBJECTS:

It is unlawful for any person to give, lend, sell, transmit or expose, without previous disinfection in accordance with the rules of the board of health, any bedding, clothing, rags or other objects that have been exposed to infection from any of the communicable diseases. (1999 Code)