(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."