(A) The Health Officer shall act when it has reasonable cause to believe that a food employee or conditional employee has possibly transmitted disease; may be infected with a disease in a communicable form that is transmissible through food; may be a carrier of infection agents that cause a disease that is transmissible through food; or is affected with a boil, an infected wound, or acute respiratory infection, by: securing a confidential medical history of the food employee or conditional employee suspected of transmitting disease or making other investigations as deemed appropriate and requiring appropriate medical examinations, including collection of specimens for laboratory analysis, of a suspected food employee or conditional employee.
(B) Based on the findings of an investigation related to a food employee or conditional employee who is suspected of being infected or diseased, the Health Officer may issue an order to the suspected food employee, conditional employee, or permit holder instituting one or more of the following control measures:
(1) Restricting the food employee or conditional employee;
(2) Excluding the food employee or conditional employee; or
(3) Closing the food establishment by summarily suspending a permit to operate in accordance with § 111.06.
(C) Based on the findings of the investigation to control disease transmission, the Health Officer may issue an order of Restriction and Exclusion to a suspected food employee or the permit holder without warning, notice of a hearing, or a hearing if the order:
(1) States the reason for the restriction or exclusion that is ordered;
(2) States the evidence that the food employee or permit holder shall provide to demonstrate that the reasons for the restriction or exclusion are eliminated;
(3) States the suspected food employee or the permit holder may request an appeal hearing; and
(4) Provides the name and address of the Health Officer representative to whom a request for an appeal hearing may be made.
(Ord. 17-2, passed 2-14-2017; Res. passed 11-14-2023)