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(a) Inspection and compliance with regulations. The toilet facilities and methods of sewage disposal in all institutions shall be inspected regularly by the department or other designated county agency for conformity with the excreta disposal laws of the state and the county and shall comply with all regulations issued under such laws.
(b) Toilet facilities generally. There shall be provided in all buildings used for living or instruction which are accessible to a sanitary sewer convenient and adequate toilet facilities so located, constructed and maintained that they shall not be offensive to the users, shall not be accessible to flies or vermin, and shall not by leakage or seepage offer possible contamination of adjacent waters or otherwise create a nuisance.
(c) Ratio of toilet facilities to students. The following ratio of toilets to students shall be deemed a standard for minimum adequacy:
Girls’ toilet units, elementary school | 1 to 35 |
Girls’ toilet units, secondary school | 1 to 45 |
Boys’ toilet units (when no urinals are provided) | 1 to 35 |
Boys’ toilet units when supplemented by at least one urinal to fifty boys | 1 to 100 |
Lavatories, elementary school | 1 to 60 |
Lavatories, secondary school | 1 to 100 |
(Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 97-21; 1972 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 13; 1980 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 2.)
(a) Standards generally. All institutions shall comply with grade A standards established by the county board of health in its regulations for eating and drinking establishments.
(b) Screening against flies and mosquitoes. All doors, windows and other outer openings of kitchen, pantries and dining halls shall be screened against flies and mosquitoes between April 1 and October 15 of each year.
(c) Quality of milk used. In all institutions only pasteurized milk and cream conforming to state and local milk regulations shall be used. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 97-22.)
Cross reference-Eating and drinking establishments, ch. 15.
(a) Receptacle requirements generally. All garbage and waste matter from institutions regulated by this article shall be deposited in covered metal receptacles which shall be regularly emptied and cleaned at least twice a week between November 1 and April 1 of every year. Such receptacles shall be cleaned more frequently between April 1 and November 1 upon the written order of the director.
(b) Disposition of garbage, etc. All garbage and waste matter shall be burned, buried or otherwise disposed of in such a manner as not to violate any of the provisions of this Code or constitute a health or sanitary nuisance.
(c) Storage of garbage. Garbage shall be stored for collection in such a manner that it will not be accessible to rodents or other vermin.
(d) Garbage can locations to be kept clean. Places where garbage cans are located shall be kept clean at all times.
(e) Disposition of tin cans, etc. Emptied tin cans and food containers shall be disposed of in such a manner as to render them inaccessible to mosquitoes, other insects or vermin. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 97-23; 1972 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 13; 1980 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 2.)
Cross reference-Solid waste, ch. 48.
(a) Generally. Every institution shall prepare a plan for insuring adequate emergency and other medical service. Every overnight school and camp shall have a school medical adviser, who shall be a licensed physician and who shall, pursuant to a definite arrangement with the institution:
(1) Regularly advise the institution concerning its general health program, emergency and other medical services, measures to control communicable diseases, health supervision of athletic participants and first-aid and nursing services;
(2) Assume responsibility for the examination and medical supervision of any children unable to secure this service from private physicians;
(3) Issue standing orders to the person responsible for first-aid service.
(b) Program in handling emergencies. Every institution shall prepare a planned, written program for the handling of emergencies and, in connection therewith, shall keep available in a convenient location a list of the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the institution's medical adviser, or nearby physicians available in emergencies, of nearby ambulance and hospital services and of the family physician of the individual students.
(c) Person trained in first-aid to be present. An adult person trained in first-aid shall be present in every institution at all times when students or children are present.
(d) When provisions for first-aid attention required. Adequate provisions for first-aid attention shall be made in connection with all group trips away from the institution except for trips performed within an area where first-aid attention is readily obtainable.
(e) Telephone required. There shall be a telephone in every educational institution and every recreational camp; provided, however, that where such camp is unable to obtain a telephone there shall be one (1) within five (5) minutes' travel distance from such camp.
(f) Automobile facilities. At all times there shall be available to every school automobile facilities which can be obtained within fifteen (15) minutes after call. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 97-24.)
(a) Report required. All cases of communicable diseases initially detected in students during their presence in an institution must be immediately reported to the Health and Human Services Department by the person in charge of the institution. The report must include the name of any individual in the institution known to have or suspected of having any such disease and such other information as may be prescribed by the Director.
(b) Plan of isolation. Every institution shall prepare a plan of isolation of students while on the premises of the institution which meets the approval of the County Health Officer.
(c) Release of students suffering from or exposed to disease. No institution shall release a resident student suffering from a communicable disease or who has been exposed to such a disease within the incubation period of a communicable disease to a locality within the County without authorization of a licensed physician. No such student shall be released to a location outside the County without authorization of the County Health Officer. This subsection shall apply to chicken pox, diphtheria, measles and German measles, mumps, poliomyelitis, scarlet fever, whooping cough and such other diseases as the County Health Officer may designate.
(d) Procedure in case of suspected food poisoning, etc. Whenever there occurs in any institution any outbreak of suspected food poisoning or whenever there is an unusual prevalence of any illness in which diarrhea, fever, sore throat, vomiting or jaundice is a prominent symptom, it is the duty of the person in charge of the institution to report immediately the existence of such an outbreak or disease prevalence to the Health and Human Services Department.
(e) Examination, etc., of employees. No institution shall knowingly permit an employee suffering from a communicable disease or suspected communicable disease to be on duty until examined by a licensed physician and found to be free from infection transmissible to others. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 97-25; 1972 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 13; 1980 L.M.C., ch. 37, § 2; 1995 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 1.)
Editor's note-Section 5 of 1995 L.M.C., ch. 13, reads as follows: "Sec. 5. A regulation that implements a function assigned to the Department of Health and Human Services by 1995 LMC ch. 13 continues in effect but is amended to the extent necessary to provide that the regulation is administered by the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services."
Overnight schools and camps shall maintain a clean, well-lighted and sanitary infirmary. The minimal standard for the number of beds in any such infirmary shall be determined by the county health officer, based on the number of resident students, the arrangements for transferring sick students to their homes and hospitals and other conditions affecting the care of the sick students. Such infirmaries shall be equipped with supplies prescribed by the county health officer as adequate to fulfill the needs of the particular institution. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 97-27; 1972 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 13.)
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