A. 
A "communicable disease" is a disease in which the causative agent may be transmitted from person to person or from animal to person by direct or indirect means.
B. 
The following diseases, excepting those which are indicated by an asterisk (*), are declared to be communicable. All diseases listed herein shall be reported to this Board:
Amebiasis
Anthrax
Botulism*
Brucellosis
Cerebral palsy*
Chicken pox
Cholera
Dengue
Diarrhea of newborn
Diphtheria
Epilepsy*
Food poisonings*
Glanders
Infectious encephalitis
Infectious hepatitis, including serum hepatitis
Influenza
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Malaria
Measles (rubeola)
Measles (German)
Meningococcal meningitis
Mental deficiency*
Mumps
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Pertussis (whooping cough)
Plague
Pneumonia, all forms
Poliomyelitis
Psittacosis
Q fever
Rabies
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Salmonellosis (other than typhoid fever)
Shigellosis
Smallpox
Streptococcal sore throat, including scarlet fever
Tetanus*
Trachoma
Trichinosis*
Tuberculosis, all forms
Tularemia
Typhoid fever
Typhus fever
Venereal diseases:+
Chancroid
Gonorrhea
Granuloma inguinale
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Syphilis
Yellow fever
+Note: Venereal diseases shall be reported directly to the State Department of Health and shall be reported to the local Board of Health if required by resolution of this Board.
All reports of cases or suspected cases of communicable disease shall be made in writing to the Health Officer, signed by the physician or other person making the same, and shall set forth the nature, together with the date of onset, of the disease or supposed disease and the name, age, sex, color and precise location of the person infected.
A. 
Every physician who shall attend any person who is infected with or is suspected of being infected with any of the diseases enumerated in § 496-8B shall report such sickness within 12 hours after his first professional attendance.
B. 
When no physician is attending any person who appears to be infected with any communicable disease, then it shall be the duty of any person who is in attendance or who has knowledge thereof to report at once the existence of such suspected disease.
C. 
Every superintendent or other person having control or supervision over any hospital, sanatorium or other public or private institution situated within this municipality in which any person suffering from any of the communicable diseases enumerated in § 496-8B is received for care or treatment shall, within 24 hours after any such case has been received into said institution, report such sickness.
D. 
It shall be the duty of every teacher, nurse or medical school inspector to report forthwith to the principal or other person in charge of a school the name of any child in such school who appears to be infected with a disease declared by this chapter to be communicable. It shall be the duty of the principal or person in charge of any school to report forthwith in writing or by telephone, or in person if practicable, to the Health Officer.
E. 
It shall be the duty of the principal or other person in immediate charge of any public, private, Sunday or other school to exclude therefrom any child or other person infected with a disease suspected to be communicable until such child or other person shall have presented a certificate issued by the Health Officer.
A. 
In establishing isolation or quarantine, the local Board or Health Officer shall define the place and the limits of the area within which the infected person is to be isolated. No person except the attending physician or nurse shall enter or leave the area of isolation without the permission of the Health Officer or any other person acting under and by the authority of this Board. Isolation or quarantine shall be continued until it is determined by examination that the person no longer has the disease in an infectious stage.
B. 
After isolation or quarantine of any person infected with or exposed to a communicable disease shall have been established, such person shall not leave the apartment or premises where he is isolated or quarantined, nor shall any other person remove such person nor permit him to be removed, unless a permit for such removal shall have been issued by the Health Officer.
When the diagnosis of any communicable disease is established, this Board shall have the right to post, in plain view at the entrance of the house or upon the doors of the apartment in which the case is isolated, a placard stating the existence therein of a communicable disease and the name of such disease.
A. 
No person shall interfere with nor obstruct the posting of any placard by any representative of this Board in or on any place or premises, nor shall any person conceal or mutilate any such placard or remove it except by permission of the Health Officer.
B. 
It shall be the duty of the occupant of the premises where a placard has been posted to notify immediately the Health Officer of any interference with or removal of such placard.
The physician, nurse or other necessary attendant upon a case of communicable disease, after attending upon the case, shall take precautions and practice such measures of cleansing or disinfection of his person and garments as will prevent the conveyance to others of infective material from the patient.
A. 
No person shall expose or permit the exposure of anyone to any communicable disease or its causative agent.
B. 
No person suffering from a communicable disease or harboring the causative organism of any communicable disease, and no articles which may tend to propagate or spread such disease, shall be brought into this municipality without permission from the Health Officer. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of any person that such persons or articles have been brought into this municipality without the permission of the Health Officer, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the Health Officer. No person shall remove any such diseased person or infected articles from any house or place without a permit from the Health Officer.
No person infected with chicken pox, diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, German measles, mumps, acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), scarlet fever, streptococcic sore throat, whooping cough, smallpox, Vincent's angina or gonorrhea and syphilis in an infectious stage shall attend or be permitted to attend any public, private or Sunday school or any public or private gatherings; nor shall such person visit or make use of any public library or any of the books belonging thereto; nor shall the personal clothing or bed clothing of any person infected with such disease be sent to a public laundry unless it shall have first been disinfected in such manner as prescribed by this Board.
This Board may, if it shall be deemed necessary, require a person believed to be a carrier of disease germs to furnish specimens for examination. It shall be the duty of such person to furnish the necessary specimens for examination or to permit the Health Officer or his representative to collect such specimens.
Whenever this Board shall deem it necessary to establish the true character of any disease which in its opinion may be communicable, a medical examination of the person infected may be required and such specimens of secretions or other material for examination shall be taken from such person, and it shall be the duty of such person to submit to such examination and furnish such necessary specimens. No person shall interfere with or prevent the securing of such specimens. The Board may cause any person suspected to be infected with a communicable disease to be isolated or quarantined until medical or laboratory examinations show that the person is free of the causative organisms of disease.
Adequate cleansing or disinfection, or both, of rooms, furniture and belongings, when deemed necessary by this Board or required by this chapter, shall immediately follow the recovery, death or removal of a person infected with a communicable disease. Such cleansing shall be performed by and at the expense of the occupant or owner of said premises, upon the order and under the direction of this Board, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
When an order requiring the cleansing or disinfection of articles or premises is not complied with, this Board shall cause to be posted a placard on the premises forbidding the occupancy of such rooms or premises until such order shall have been complied with. No person shall remove, mutilate, conceal or destroy any such placard except by the direction of this Board.
Furniture, bedding, clothing, carpets, rugs or other articles which may have been contaminated with infective material and which are of such nature or in such condition that they cannot, in the opinion of the Health Officer, be properly cleansed or disinfected, shall, upon his order, be destroyed in the manner designated by him.
Every physician attending any person whose illness is caused or suspected of being caused by food poisoning (bacterial or chemical) shall, within 12 hours after his first attendance, make a written report to this Board, stating the name, age, sex, color and address of such person.
Every veterinarian who shall attend any animal within this municipality having or suspected of having rabies, glanders or farcy, anthrax or any other communicable disease transmittable to humans shall, within 12 hours thereafter, report in writing to this Board the location of such diseased animal, the type and character of the disease and the name and address of the owner.
It shall be the duty of any person having knowledge of any dog, cat or other animal infected with rabies or suspected of being infected with rabies within this municipality to forthwith notify this Board and, if possible, give a description of the animal, the location where it may be found and the name and address of the owner or the person having custody thereof.
The owner or other person in charge of any dog, cat or other animal known to be rabid or known to have been bitten by an animal known to have been infected by or with rabies shall, upon notice by the Board to do so, either confine such animal for a period of six months or put such animal or cause such animal to be put to death.
Whenever a dog, cat or other animal shall have bitten any person, the attending physician or the person bitten or the owner or person in charge thereof shall report immediately said bite to the Board of Health.
Whenever a dog, cat or other animal shall have bitten any person, the owner or person in charge thereof shall securely confine such animal for the purpose of observation in such a manner and for such a period as may be designated by the Health Officer.
Whenever a death has been caused by any communicable disease, the transportation, care, disposal and burial of the body shall be in accordance with the regulation regarding same as required by the State Sanitary Code and in accordance with such further regulation as this Board may direct.