Supervision of local institutions by health authority: Regulations; inspections and reports.
1. The health authority shall have supervision over the sanitation, healthfulness, cleanliness and safety, as it pertains to the foregoing matters, of the following city, county and private institutions:
(a) Jails, correctional institutions, and other institutions performing similar functions;
(b) Schools; and
(c) School gymnasiums.
2. The State Board of Health shall, with respect to jails, correctional institutions and other institutions performing similar functions, and may, with respect to the other institutions named in subsection 1, adopt and enforce such regulations as are necessary to promote properly the sanitation, healthfulness, cleanliness and safety, as it pertains to the foregoing matters, of those institutions.
3. The health authority shall inspect those institutions at least once each calendar year and at such other times as, in its discretion, it deems an inspection necessary to carry out the provisions of this section; except that inspections of schools and gymnasiums shall be made at least twice each year, once during each semester.
4. A report of the findings of an inspection must be made to the Health Officer within 20 days following the inspection. The Health Officer may from time to time, in his discretion, publish the reports of those inspections.
5. All persons charged with the duty of maintenance and operation of the institutions named in this section shall operate those institutions in conformity with regulations relating to sanitation, healthfulness, cleanliness and safety, as it pertains to the foregoing matters, adopted by the State Board of Health.
6. The health authority may, in carrying out the provisions of this section, enter upon any part of the premises of any of the institutions named in this section over which it has jurisdiction, to determine the sanitary conditions of those places and to determine whether the provisions of this section and the regulations of the State Board of Health pertaining thereto are being violated.
Last modified: February 26, 2006