California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 3 - Functions and Duties of Local Health Officers

  • Section 120175.
    Each health officer knowing or having reason to believe that any case of the diseases made reportable by regulation of the department, or any other...
  • Section 120176.
    During an outbreak of communicable disease, or upon the imminent and proximate threat of communicable disease outbreak or epidemic that threatens the public’s health, all...
  • Section 120180.
    If the health officer of any county having a population of 5,000,000 or more employs personnel as inspectors or investigators in the enforcement of the...
  • Section 120185.
    In the case of a local epidemic of disease, the health officer shall report at those times as are requested by the department all facts...
  • Section 120190.
    Each health officer shall immediately report by telegraph or telephone to the department every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases designated...
  • Section 120195.
    Each health officer shall enforce all orders, rules, and regulations concerning quarantine or isolation prescribed or directed by the department.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415,...
  • Section 120200.
    Each health officer, whenever required by the department, shall establish and maintain places of quarantine or isolation that shall be subject to the special directions...
  • Section 120205.
    No quarantine shall be established by a county or city against another county or city without the written consent of the department.(Added by Stats. 1995,...
  • Section 120210.
    Whenever in the judgment of the department it is necessary for the protection or preservation of the public health, each health officer shall, when directed...
  • Section 120215.
    Upon receiving information of the existence of contagious, infectious, or communicable disease for which the department may from time to time declare the need for...
  • Section 120220.
    When quarantine or isolation, either strict or modified, is established by a health officer, all persons shall obey his or her rules, orders, and regulations.(Added...
  • Section 120225.
    A person subject to quarantine or strict isolation, residing or in a quarantined building, house, structure, or other shelter, shall not go beyond the lot...
  • Section 120230.
    No instructor, teacher, pupil, or child who resides where any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease exists or has recently existed, that is subject to strict...
  • Section 120235.
    No quarantine shall be raised until every exposed room, together with all personal property in the room, has been adequately treated, or, if necessary, destroyed,...
  • Section 120240.
    If, pursuant to Section 120130, a modified isolation order is issued, and the order is not complied with, the local health officer may, in that...
  • Section 120245.
    Each health officer, other than a county health officer, in the county shall transmit to the county health officer at least weekly in writing a...
  • Section 120250.
    All physicians, nurses, clergymen, attendants, owners, proprietors, managers, employees, and persons living with, or visiting any sick person, in any hotel, lodginghouse, house, building, office,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018