(A) It shall be unlawful for any person affected with any infectious disease in a communicable form or without a health certificate provided for in the following divisions to engage or serve in any work, occupation, or employment which requires or occasions the actual handling of foods or liquids or material intended for food or drink for human consumption or the handling of any dishes or other articles used in the preparation or serving of food or drink for human consumption; it shall be unlawful for any owner or manager of a food-handling establishment, business, or occupation to employ for the performance of this type of service any person who may be without a health certificate, or who is known or reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease, if upon examination, it is determined that the person actually has such a disease; it shall be unlawful for any person knowing himself or herself to be affected with a communicable disease, if upon examination, it is determined that the person actually has a communicable disease, to seek or continue in this type of employment or service.
(B) Every person engaged in or who desires or intends to engage in an occupation in which, under division (A) of this section, a health certificate is required, shall, before he or she engages in any such occupation or continues therein, secure a health certificate. Health certificates shall be in the form of a written statement to the effect that the holder thereof, naming that holder, has none of the types of diseases mentioned in division (A). The certificate shall be issued and signed by a physician in good standing and duly authorized to practice medicine in the state.
(C) No health certificate shall be issued until an adequate physical examination of the prospective holder thereof is made by the physician who signs and issues the certificate, and the certificate shall show the date of the examination. It shall be unlawful for any physician to issue a health certificate without a physical examination or to knowingly make any false statement of fact therein. The Commissioner of Public Health and Safety may require the holder of any health certificate to present himself or herself for examination by some physician. The ordered examination shall be had not less than 4 days after the demand therefor, and if it discloses the presence of a disease that would prevent the original issuance of a health certificate, the health certificate issued to the person so examined shall be revoked and canceled.
(D) No health certificate shall have any validity, force, or effect after 6 months from the date of the previous physical examination, and the holder thereof shall obtain a new health certificate every 6 months.
(E) Any person who may be engaged in any work, occupation, or service covered by division (A) shall exhibit his or her health certificate whenever required to do so by the City Health Officer or the employer of that person.
(F) It shall be unlawful for any person to make any false statement or misrepresentation for the purpose of obtaining a health certificate. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to make any false statement or to make any incorrect statement without reasonable foundation or basis therefor with respect to the health certificate if the statement shall be made for the purpose of causing, or shall actually cause, the person about whom the statement shall be made to get or fail to get a health certificate required by this section or to lose any employment from any occupation for which a health certificate is required by this section.
(G) It shall be unlawful for any person who may have obtained a health certificate to give or lend the same or allow anyone else to use the same or to borrow, use or claim as his or her own health certificate any certificate issued to another person.
(H) It shall be unlawful for the holder of a health certificate to continue in any occupation covered by this section after refusing or willfully failing to submit to the physical examination by a physician as hereinbefore provided for, or to fail or refuse to surrender to the Health Officer or the Commissioner of Public Health and Safety his or her health certificate for cancellation where a physical examination discloses the presence of diseases as defined in division (A) of this section.
(1969 Code, § 10-2) Penalty, see § 10.99
Cross-reference:
Alcoholic beverage employees; contagious disease prohibited, see § 111.34
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see ILCS Chapter 410, Act 650, §§ 8, 10