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§ 158-3 Attendance at public places and use of public conveyances.
No person suffering from any of the diseases named in § 158-1 (except tuberculosis, malarial fever, syphilis and gonorrhea) and no person in charge of such patient (except in cases of tuberculosis, malarial fever, typhoid fever, syphilis and gonorrhea) shall attend any public, private or Sunday school or any public place or enter any public conveyance without first notifying the owner, driver or person in charge thereof, who shall thereafter provide for the disinfection of such conveyance before permitting its use again, but no owner, driver or person in charge of any public conveyance of any kind shall permit any person suffering from any disease mentioned in § 158-1A or B of this chapter (excepting tuberculosis, infectious eye diseases or puerperal sep...
§ 158-4 Report required.
A. It shall be the duty of every physician, upon discovery of any case of infectious disease mentioned in § 158-1 of this chapter, to report the same forthwith to the office of the Health Department, except cases of syphilis and gonorrhea, which shall be reported only when, in the opinion of the attending physician, the case is a source of danger to the general public. B. Any person in attendance upon or in charge of any patient suffering from any of the diseases mentioned in § 158-1 of this chapter, in case the service of a regularly qualified physician is not employed, shall forthwith report to the office of the Department of Health the existence of such disease and the name and address of the patient or person suffering from such disease. The provis...
§ 158-5 Hospitalization of persons with poliomyelitis.
It shall be the duty of the Health Commissioner, whenever a case of poliomyelitis shall come to his attention in any manner, forthwith to cause the removal to a suitable hospital of the person whose illness is diagnosed as poliomyelitis.
§ 158-6 Removal of infected persons prohibited.
A. No person sick with any infectious disease (except typhoid fever, malarial fever, tuberculosis, syphilis and gonorrhea) shall be removed from one building to another without a permit from the Health Commissioner. In each case of tuberculosis, the premises from which the sick person was removed shall be forthwith disinfected before being reoccupied. Notification thereof shall be made to the office of the Health Department either by the physician in attendance, if any, or by a member of the immediate household. B. No person who shall be sick or infected with smallpox, varioloid or any of the infectious diseases mentioned in § 158-1 of this chapter, except syphillis and gonorrhea, shall depart from or be removed from the house or building in which he o...
§ 158-7 Unfit buildings to be vacated.
If any building or part of a building, upon inspection by an officer or representative of the Health Department, shall be deemed by the Health Commissioner unfit for human habitation by reason of infection or the existence of other cause tending to endanger health, such building or part of a building shall be vacated within such time as may be fixed by the Health Commissioner. In every case of smallpox, the patient shall be removed to the quarantine hospital, except when such removal would place the life of the patient in jeopardy, in which case the Health Commissioner may grant a permit for the patient to remain at home upon compliance with such precautions as may be prescribed by said Health Commissioner.
§ 158-8 Entrance into house of infected person.
No person, other than the attending physician, shall enter or depart from a house in which is a person suffering from any of the diseases mentioned in § 158-1 of this chapter without permission from the Health Commissioner, except in cases of tuberculosis, typhoid fever, infectious eye diseases, puerperal septicemia or malarial fever, syphilis and gonorrhea, and until such house has been disinfected according to the rules of the Health Department.
§ 158-9 Burials.
A. No person shall attend a funeral of any person dying from smallpox, typhus fever, diphtheria (croup in all forms), scarlet fever, yellow fever, Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), influenza (epidemic influenza or Spanish influenza), pneumonia, all forms, including bronchopneumonia, other than the absolutely necessary attendants and the immediate family of such deceased. In case of death from any of said diseases, the undertaker shall cause the body to be buried within twenty-four (24) hours after death and shall proceed direct from the place where the patient died to the burial ground. B. All dead bodies brought into the City in which the cause of death is given as a...
§ 158-10 Disposal of clothing, bedding and other exposed articles.
No person shall sell, lend or give away or dispose of in any manner, except destruction by fire, any clothing, bedding, rags or other articles exposed to infection or liable to carry the same, articles properly protected and in transit for disinfection or destruction excepted.
§ 158-11 Entrance into City by infected persons prohibited.
No person shall bring or aid in bringing into the City of Buffalo any person suffering from any of the infectious diseases mentioned in § 158-1 of this chapter, except syphilis and gonorrhea.
§ 158-12 Making or sale of clothing.
No person shall make or procure or cause to be made any clothing or wearing apparel of any kind in any house or building wherein any person is sick with smallpox, varioloid or other infectious disease, except for the personal use of the inmates of said house or building; and no person shall sell or expose for sale any clothing or wearing apparel which shall have been made in any house or building in which there shall have been at the time when said clothing was made any person sick or infected with any such disease.
§ 158-13 Quarantine; posting.
No person shall visit or enter any house wherein is any person sick with small pox or varioloid, except the persons who, at the time said patient was taken sick, were residents of said house, the nurse or nurses employed in the care of such patient and such regularly attending physicians as may be called; nor shall any person who is in constant attendance upon such sick person leave or depart from said house during the time when such sick person remains therein, and not thereafter until the wearing apparel which he or she has worn while in attendance upon such sick person shall have been replaced by clothing which has not been worn in such sickroom, and then only upon a written permit from the Health Commissioner. It shall be the duty of the Health Depar...
§ 158-14 Vaccination of school pupils.
It shall be the duty of every medical school examiner to visit all schools within his district when required to do so by the Health Commissioner and examine the pupils in attendance upon said schools for the purpose of determining whether or not such pupils should be vaccinated and to report to the Health Department the number of said pupils who have not been vaccinated and who require to be vaccinated; and it shall be his duty to vaccinate said pupils whenever the Health Commissioner shall so direct.
§ 158-15 Medical examination of school pupils.
It shall be the duty of the medical school examiners to visit all the schools in the City of Buffalo systematically for the purpose of making such examinations and inspections as may be required by the rules and regulations prescribed by the Health Commissioner for this purpose; and they shall perform any work assigned to them at any time by said Health Commissioner. The school nurses likewise shall perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Health Commissioner.
§ 158-16 Disinfection of rental premises; statement
No person shall let, lease or hire any room, house or any part of a house in which there has been any infectious disease until after said room, house or part of a house shall have been disinfected under regulations approved by the Health Commissioner. It shall be the duty of every person letting, leasing or hiring any house or building or part thereof to make to the person negotiating for the same a true statement concerning instances of infectious diseases therein within the previous three (3) months.
§ 158-17 Vaccination required; quarantine upon refusal.
A. Vaccination required. (1) It shall be the duty of all persons within the City of Buffalo who have not been vaccinated within five (5) years previous to submit to vaccination if required; and the parents and guardians of such minor children as have not been vaccinated shall cause such children to submit to vaccination when, in the interest of public health, it may be deemed necessary by the Health Commissioner. It shall be the duty of the Health Commissioner to vaccinate, free of charge, any and all persons within said City who shall request him to do so. (2) The Health Commissioner is authorized and empowered to cause to be vaccinated forthwith every inmate of a household in which a case of smallpox occurs. (3) He is also authorized and empowered ...
§ 158-18 Certification for school child.
No parent or person having care or charge of a child or person with whom a child resides who is or has been suffering from infectious or contagious disease or who resides in a house where such disease exists or has existed within a period of six (6) months shall knowingly or negligently permit such child to attend school without procuring and producing to the teacher or person in charge of such school a certificate from some registered medical practitioner, approved of by the Health Commissioner, that such child has become free from disease and infection and that the house and everything therein exposed to infection have been disinfected to the satisfaction of the Health Commissioner. No teacher or person in charge of any school shall knowingly permit an...
§ 158-19 Circulars and other literature.
It shall be the duty of the Health Commissioner to have printed in English, German, Polish and Italian circulars and other literature pertaining to all the infectious diseases specified in § 158-1 of this chapter and to cause said circulars and literature to be distributed for the information of the public. In the case of tuberculosis, he shall have printed, in addition, suitable signs or placards explaining the danger of indiscriminate expectoration.
§ 158-20 Proclamation to close public entertainment establishments.
A. Whenever the Health Commissioner and the Mayor shall deem it necessary and expedient, on account of the spread of any infectious or contagious disease, to proceed under the authority hereby conferred upon them, the Mayor may take such steps, adopt such measures and issue such orders and proclamations as may be recommended, in writing, by the Health Commissioner and may, in pursuance of such recommendation, order and direct by proclamation the closing of all theaters and other similar places of public entertainment and all gatherings or assemblies of persons for any purpose and may issue such directions as may be deemed necessary to stay or prevent the spread of such infection. After the publication of such proclamation, it shall be the duty of the He...
Ch 159 Dentistry
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Buffalo 3-20-2007, effective 3-29-2007. Amendments noted where applicable.]
§ 159-1 Legislative findings.
The Common Council of the City of Buffalo hereby finds that the unlawful and unauthorized practice of dentistry, including the fabrication and application of dental prostheses, including "grills," poses a significant risk to the public health, safety, and welfare.