The General Manager of the Personnel Department shall furnish any employee of the City of Los Angeles preventive medical care for exposure to any communicable disease which is not a common disease known as a risk of the communality (such as a cold or influenza) when all of the following conditions exist in the cumulative.
a. The employee has actually and closely been exposed to the disease while in the course and scope of the employee’s City employment;
b. The General Manager of the Personnel Department has determined the City would be liable to provide the employee with workers’ compensation benefits pursuant to Division IV of the California Labor Code if the employee contracted the disease;
c. There exists and is available a medically acceptable form of preventive medical care for exposure to the disease and it is medically advisable to administer such preventive medical care to the employee.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 141,087, Eff. 11-20-70.