Chapter 8.28 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

Sections:

8.28.010 - Duty to report communicable diseases.#

A.

It shall be the duty of every physician or other person caring for the sick within the city to make a report through non-emergency dispatch of the existence of any case of a communicable disease in the city that poses an imminent public health or safety risk: and it shall be the duty of every person, owner, agent, manager, principal or superintendent of any public or private institution, dispensary, hotel, boarding house, or lodging house to make a report in like manner of any inmate, occupant, or boarder contacting or suffering from any communicable disease that poses an imminent public health or safety risk.

B.

It is unlawful for any physician, nurse, or other person having knowledge of the existence of any communicable disease that poses an imminent public health or safety risk or having reason to believe that any such disease exists in the city to fall to report the same to non-emergency dispatch; provided, however, that it shall not be necessary to make such a report if the same has been reported as required, by any other person. The responsibility for determining whether or not the disease has been reported shall rest with the person required to make the report and it shall be no defense to a prosecution under this section that the person required to make the report thought that the report had been turned in by others having the same duty or obligation herein.

(Ord. No. 2020-06, § VI, 6-3-2020; Ord. No. 2020-08, § I, 6-17-2020)