[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of
Hales Corners as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-9-2005 by Ord.
No. 05-06 (§ 15.09 of the Municipal Code)]
The Village Health Officer shall perform all duties prescribed
to him or her by the State of Wisconsin and the State Department of
Health Services regarding contagious diseases, particularly, but not
limited to, Ch. 252, Wis. Stats., and Ch. DHS 145, Wis. Adm. Code,
and "local health officer" as used within the Wisconsin Statutes and
Wisconsin Administrative Code shall mean the Village Health Officer,
all such statutes and code provisions pertaining to contagious diseases
being specifically incorporated herein by reference, as amended from
time to time, and as such constituting local direction and authority
for the Village Health Officer and Health Department.
The Village Health Officer shall undertake such measures for
the control of communicable diseases, other than tuberculosis, but
also including those diseases as are specifically set forth in Appendix
A to Ch. DHS 145, Wis. Adm. Code, as set forth under § 252.06,
Wis. Stats., and § DHS 145.06, Wis. Adm. Code, specifically,
but not limited to, measures to direct a person known to have or suspected
of having a contagious disease to participate in such programs, tests,
evaluations, conduct cessation, isolated or segregated residence,
placement and the like as set forth under § DHS 145.06(4),
Wis. Adm. Code, and in the absence of compliance with such directive,
to petition a court of record to order compliance with such directive,
as set forth under § DHS 145.06(5), Wis. Adm. Code.
The Village Health Officer shall undertake such measures for
the control of tuberculosis, as set forth under § 252.07,
Wis. Stats., and § DHS 145.10, Wis. Adm. Code, specifically,
but not limited to, measures to order the confinement to a facility
of an individual having or suspected of having tuberculosis, upon
those conditions set forth under § 252.07(8)(a), Wis. Stats.,
and § DHS 145.10(6)(d), (e) and (f), Wis. Adm. Code, and
to petition the court for an extension of such confinement as necessary
and pursuant to those conditions set forth under § 252.07(9)(a),
Wis. Stats., and § DHS 145.10(7), Wis. Adm. Code.
The Village Health Officer may advise the public and any individual
persons of the provisions of this article and the Wisconsin Statutes
and the Wisconsin Administrative Code provisions referenced and incorporated
herein, in order to assist the Health Officer in the performance of
duties pertaining to the protection against contagious diseases, including
but not limited to the provisions of § 252.19, Wis. Stats.,
providing that no person who is knowingly infected with a communicable
disease may willfully violate the recommendations of the local health
officer or subject others to danger of contracting the disease and
that no person may knowingly and willfully take, aid in taking, advise
or cause to be taken a person who is infected or is suspected of being
infected with a communicable disease into any public place or conveyance
where the infected person would expose any other person to danger
of contracting the disease. The Village Health Officer may further
specifically advise schools, teachers, school nurses and principals
of the provisions of § 252.21, Wis. Stats., providing in
part at Subsection (1) that a local health officer should be notified
of the existence or suspicion of the existence of the presence of
a communicable disease in a school, and the provisions of Subsection
(6) thereof, providing in part that any teacher, school nurse or principal
may send home pupils who are suspected of having a communicable disease
or any other disease the State Department of Health Services specifies
by rule.
Any person who willfully violates or obstructs the execution of any term or provision of this article or any state statute, code or rule, county or Village ordinance or departmental order under this article, Ch. 252, Wis. Stats. and/or Ch. DHS 145, Wis. Adm. Code, relating to the public health, for which no other penalty is prescribed, shall, in addition to being subject to all other legal and equitable actions and relief available to the Village of Hales Comers, be subject to the penalty provisions set forth under § 1-4 of this Code.
[Adopted 10-10-2005 by Ord. No. 05-16 (§§ 15.10 and 15.11
of the Municipal Code)]
Section 254.01, Definitions, § 254.55, Definitions,
§ 254.56, Public places, § 254.59, Human health
hazards, § 254.593, Authority of the Department and local
health departments, and § 254.595, Property violating codes
or health orders, of the Wisconsin Statutes, as amended from time
to time and as they apply to a village, be and the same are hereby
incorporated into this article by reference.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall be subject to a penalty as provided in § 1-4 of this Code.
