As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
An illness due to an infectious agent or its toxic products which are transmitted, directly or indirectly, to a susceptible host from an infectious person, animal or arthropod, or through the agency of an intermediate host, vector or inanimate environment.
The control and regulation of communicable and noncommunicable diseases shall be subject to Title 28, Pennsylvania Code, Chapter 27, as amended.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former Section 1111.03, Reporting of communicable diseases required, and former Section 1111.04, Communicable disease reports from other areas, which previously followed this section, were repealed 11-17-2004 by Ord. No. 4599.
No commercial blood bank shall operate in the City without first applying for and receiving an annual permit from the Public Officer. The Public Officer shall prescribe the form and content of the permit application and may establish such regulations as he deems necessary for the protection of the health and welfare of the residents of the City.