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.
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.
No clinical laboratory or analytical-biochemical-biological
laboratory shall operate in the City unless it complies with Title
28, Pennsylvania Code, Chapter 5, as amended.