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§ 92.118 METHOD OF CONTROL OF CONTACTS; CONTROL OF CARRIERS.
   (a)   Method of control of contacts. The health officer shall have the power to isolate or restrict the movements of any person who is known to have been exposed to any of the quarantinable diseases or those subject to isolation for a time equal to the maximum period of incubation of the disease, or for the period between the minimum and maximum incubation periods of the disease.
   (b)   Control of carriers. The health officer may isolate, quarantine or restrict the movement of carriers of the infectious agent of cerebrospinal fever, cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever or any other communicable disease until their discharges are shown to be free from the specific organisms of the disease.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.408; 1992 Code, § 19-89)
§ 92.119 COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN SCHOOLS.
   (a)   The teacher of any school, college, university or Sunday school having under his or her care any pupil who appears to be affected with any communicable disease shall promptly send the pupil home or separate him or her from other pupils until examined by a physician, and the pupil shall not be readmitted to school without the permission of the health officer.
   (b)   If any of the quarantinable diseases or those subject to isolation are present, the health officer may cause to be examined any pupils, teachers or other persons employed in the schools and may take any measures necessary to prevent the spread of disease. All school authorities and employees shall conform to all rules and regulations of the health department for the accomplishment of this end.
   (c)   The health officer shall immediately inform the school authorities of the presence of cases of communicable diseases in any of the schools.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.409; 1992 Code, § 19-90)
§ 92.120 CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS.
   (a)   No person from any house wherein there is any person affected with any of the quarantinable diseases or those subject to isolation shall attend any public, private or sectarian school until the recovery or death of the sick person, nor until provided with a permit in writing signed by the health officer. This permit must be presented to the principal or teacher of the school before the person is allowed to resume attendance.
   (b)   All physicians, upon the discovery of any of the quarantinable diseases or those subject to isolation, shall instruct the parents or guardian of any child or minor who may be residing at the infected premises of the provisions of this section.
   (c)   The principal or teacher of any school shall report at once by telephone to the health officer any violation of this section.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.409; 1992 Code, § 19-91)
§ 92.121 SPECIAL RULES FOR TUBERCULOSIS.
   (a)   Whenever there is a case of tuberculosis, the health officer shall take those proper precautions as may be deemed necessary and give proper instruction to the patient and all other persons occupying the same premises to prevent the spread of the disease. Every person affected with tuberculosis shall dispose of his or her sputum, saliva or other discharges in a manner not dangerous to the public health.
   (b)   Whenever a person so affected is or is likely to be a menace to the health of others, the health department may cause the person to be quarantined, isolated, or removed to a hospital, sanitarium, tuberculosis camp or other proper place until the danger has been removed. Upon recovery of a person having tuberculosis, his or her physician shall notify the health department.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.411; 1992 Code, § 19-93)
§ 92.122 SPECIAL RULES FOR VENEREAL DISEASES.
   (a)   Reports made to the health department of syphilis, gonococcus infection or chancroid shall be considered confidential so far as consistent with public safety. The professional attendant of any case of venereal disease shall give explicit instructions to prevent the spread of the disease to others.
   (b)   When the patient refuses or neglects to follow prescribed treatment, discontinues treatment or is discharged as cured, the professional attendant shall immediately report these facts to the health department. When any person affected or presumably affected with venereal disease does or is liable to menace the health of others, the health officer or his or her representative shall have power to cause the removal of the person to a hospital or other proper place or to take any other measures authorized by law which are necessary in his or her opinion to prevent the spread of the disease.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.412; 1992 Code, § 19-94)
§ 92.123 DISEASES OF ANIMALS.
   Any veterinarian or other person in charge of an animal affected or presumably affected with any disease communicable to human beings shall immediately notify the health officer. Whenever there is reason to believe that an animal has rabies, the animals and all other animals bitten by it shall be securely confined by the owner or person in charge for that time as is necessary to determine whether the disease exists. Every animal which has rabies shall be disposed of as directed by the health officer.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 7.413; 1992 Code, § 19-95)
Cross-reference:
   Animals and fowl, see ch. 90
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