Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3707 - Board Of Health

• Section 3707.01 - Powers Of Board - Abatement Of Nuisances.
  The board of health of a city or general health district shall abate and remove all nuisances within its jurisdiction. It may, by order,...
• Section 3707.011 - Railroad Rights-of-way To Be Kept Free Of Dangerous Refuse.
  (A) As used in this section, "railroad company" means a suburban railroad company or an interurban railroad company, as those terms are defined in...
• Section 3707.02 - Proceedings When Order Of Board Is Neglected Or Disregarded.
  When an order of the board of health of a city or general health district, made pursuant to section 3707.01 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 3707.021 - Injunctive Relief.
  When an order of the board of health of a city or general health district, made pursuant to section 3707.01 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 3707.03 - Correction Of Nuisance Or Unsanitary Conditions On School Property.
  The board of health of a city or general health district shall abate all nuisances and may remove or correct all conditions detrimental to...
• Section 3707.04 - Quarantine Regulations.
  In time of epidemic or threatened epidemic, or when a dangerous communicable disease is unusually prevalent, the board of health of a city or...
• Section 3707.05 - Board Must Secure Approval Of Department Of Health In Certain Cases.
  The board of health of a city or general health district shall not close public highways or prohibit travel thereon, interfere with public officers...
• Section 3707.06 - Notice To Be Given Of Prevalence Of Infectious Diseases.
  (A) Each physician or other person called to attend a person suffering from cholera, plague, yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, or any...
• Section 3707.07 - Complaint Concerning Prevalence Of Disease - Inspection By Health Commissioner.
  When complaint is made or a reasonable belief exists that an infectious or contagious disease prevails in a house or other locality which has...
• Section 3707.08 - Isolation Of Persons Exposed To Communicable Disease - Placarding Of Premises.
  When a person known to have been exposed to a communicable disease declared quarantinable by the board of health of a city or general...
• Section 3707.09 - Board May Employ Quarantine Guards.
  The board of health of a city or general health district may employ as many persons as are necessary to execute its orders and...
• Section 3707.10 - Disinfection Of House In Which There Has Been A Contagious Disease.
  When a person affected with yellow fever, typhus fever, or diphtheria has recovered and is no longer liable to communicate the disease to others,...
• Section 3707.11 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-10-2000
• Section 3707.12 - Destruction Of Infected Property.
  The board of health of a city or general health district may destroy any infected clothing, bedding, or other article that cannot be made...
• Section 3707.13 - Compensation For Property Destroyed.
  The legislative authority of the municipal corporation, upon the presentation of the original receipt or written statement of the appraisers for articles or houses...
• Section 3707.14 - Maintenance Of Persons Confined In Quarantined House.
  When a house or other place is quarantined because of contagious diseases, the board of health of the city or general health district shall...
• Section 3707.15 - Employer Of Illegal Alien With Contagious Or Infectious Disease To Pay Expense Caused By Disease.
  As used in this section, "alien" means an individual who is not a citizen of the United States. Any person that employs an alien...
• Section 3707.16 - Attendance At Gatherings By Quarantined Person Prohibited.
  No person isolated or quarantined for a communicable disease declared by the board of health of a city or general health district or the...
• Section 3707.17 - Quarantine In Place Other Than That Of Legal Settlement.
  When a person with a contagious disease, quarantined in a county by a city or general health district, has a legal settlement in a...
• Section 3707.18 - Expense Of Quarantining County Public Institution.
  The expenses for quarantining a county home or other county public institution shall be paid by the county when properly certified by the president...
• Section 3707.19 - Disposal Of Body Of Person Who Died Of Communicable Disease.
  The body of a person who has died of a communicable disease declared by the department of health to require immediate disposal for the...
• Section 3707.20 - Admission Of Person Suffering From A Contagious Or Infectious Disease To Certain Institutions.
  No person, who is suffering from a contagious or infectious disease or who has been exposed to a contagious or infectious disease, may be...
• Section 3707.21 - Disease In Public Institution - Temporary Building.
  When cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or other dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease appears in any state, county, or municipal benevolent or correctional...
• Section 3707.22 - Removal Of Affected Or Exposed Persons From Public Institution To Hospital.
  The trustees or managers of any institution mentioned in section 3707.21 of the Revised Code may contract for the care, treatment, or detention of...
• Section 3707.23 - Examination Of Common Carriers By Board During Quarantine.
  When a quarantine is declared, all railroads, steamboats, or other common carriers, and the owners, consignees, or assignees of any railroad, steamboat, or other...
• Section 3707.24 - Prohibition Against Unfounded Statements In Examination.
  No owner, consignee, assignee, or other person interested in any manner set forth in section 3707.23 of the Revised Code shall make an unfounded...
• Section 3707.25 - Application Of Quarantine Rules To Persons And Goods On Vehicles Of Transportation.
  Rules and regulations passed by a board of health of a city or general health district or health commissioner shall apply to all persons,...
• Section 3707.26 - Board Shall Inspect Schools And May Close Them.
  Semiannually, and more often, if in its judgment necessary, the board of health of a city or general health district shall inspect the sanitary...
• Section 3707.27 - Board May Offer Vaccination Free Or At Reasonable Charge - Fee Payable To State.
  The board of health of a city or general health district may take measures, supply agents, and afford inducements and facilities for gratuitous vaccination,...
• Section 3707.28 - Expenses Of Board - Levy.
  When expenses are incurred by a board of health under sections 3707.01 to 3707.53, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon application and certificate from...
• Section 3707.29 - Construction Of Hospital For Contagious Disease - Bond Issue.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may purchase land within or without its boundaries and erect thereon suitable hospital buildings for the isolation,...
• Section 3707.30 - Care And Control Of Hospital - Removal Of Persons To Hospital.
  Hospital buildings constructed under section 3707.29 of the Revised Code shall be under the care and control of the board of health of the...
• Section 3707.31 - Establishment Of Quarantine Hospital.
  A municipal corporation may establish a quarantine hospital within or without its limits. If without its limits, the consent of the municipal corporation or...
• Section 3707.32 - Erection Of Temporary Buildings By Board - Destruction Of Property.
  The board of health of a city or general health district may erect temporary wooden buildings or field hospitals necessary for the isolation or...
• Section 3707.33 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3707.38.
  Effective Date: 02-12-2004
• Section 3707.34 - Quarantine And Isolation Policies.
  (A) The health commissioner appointed by a board of health of a general or city health district may act on behalf of the board...
• Section 3707.35 To 3707.37 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3717.66, 3717.64, 3717.65.
  Effective Date: 01-09-1994
• Section 3707.371 To 3707.374 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3717.61, 3717.62, 3717.63, 3717.67.
  Effective Date: 01-09-1994
• Section 3707.375, 3707.376 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 3717.68, 3717.69.
  Effective Date: 01-09-1994
• Section 3707.38 - [Repealed].
  The board of health of a city or general health district may appoint, define the duties of, and fix the compensation of the number...
• Section 3707.39 - Employment Of Scavengers - Approval For Constructing, Enlarging, Or Modifying Solid Waste Facility.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may empower the board of health of the city or general health district of which the municipal...
• Section 3707.40 - Sanitary Plant Defined.
  As used in sections 3707.40 to 3707.46 of the Revised Code, "sanitary plant" means a structure with necessary land, fixtures, appliances, and appurtenances required...
• Section 3707.41 - Municipal Corporation May Obtain Plans And Real Estate For Sanitary Plant.
  Upon the recommendation of the board of health of the city or general health district in which a municipal corporation is located, or, if...
• Section 3707.42 - Construction Of Sanitary Plant - Purposes.
  Upon obtaining the approval of the director of environmental protection, and if so required by rules adopted under division (G)(2) of section 343.01 of...
• Section 3707.43 - Contract For Removal Of Waste Substances - Expense.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may contract for a period of not to exceed five years for the collection and removal of...
• Section 3707.44 - Joint Construction And Use Of Sanitary Plants.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of township trustees of any township may enter into a contract, upon such terms...
• Section 3707.45 - Appointment Of Sanitary Board.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, by resolution, may determine to have all the work in connection with the erection and maintenance of...
• Section 3707.46 - Powers Of Sanitary Board.
  The sanitary board shall have entire control of the erection and maintenance of the sanitary plant and the purchase of the necessary real estate...
• Section 3707.47 - Annual Reports.
  On or before the fifteenth day of January of each year, the board of health or health department shall make a report in writing...
• Section 3707.48 - Prohibition Against Violation Of Orders Or Regulations Of Board.
  No person shall violate sections 3707.01 to 3707.50 or section 3707.53 of the Revised Code, or any order or regulation of the board of...
• Section 3707.49 - Violation By A Corporation - Forfeiture.
  A corporation shall, for any violation, obstruction, interference, or omission mentioned in section 3707.48 of the Revised Code, forfeit and pay to the proper...
• Section 3707.50 - Warning Concerning Anabolic Steroids To Be Conspicuously Posted In Athletic Facility Locker Rooms.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Anabolic steroid" has the same meaning as in section 3719.41 of the Revised Code. (2) "Athletic facility"...
• Section 3707.51 - "Youth Sports Organization" Defined.
  As used in sections 3707.511 and 3707.52 of the Revised Code, "youth sports organization" means a public or nonpublic entity that organizes an athletic...
• Section 3707.511 - Concussion Awareness, Training And Procedures In Youth Sports Organizations.
  (A) As used in this section : (1) "Licensing agency" has the same meaning as in section 4745.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Licensed...
• Section 3707.52 - Concussion And Head Injury Information Sheet.
  (A) The department of health shall create a concussion and head injury information sheet for participants in interscholastic athletics and youth sports organizations. The...
• Section 3707.521 - Guidelines For Athletes Sustaining Concussions Or Head Injuries.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Chiropractor" means an individual licensed under Chapter 4734. of the Revised Code. (2) "License," "licensee," and "licensing...
• Section 3707.53 - Deposit For Costs Not Required In Prosecutions - Fines.
  In prosecutions under sections 3707.01 to 3707.49 of the Revised Code, no deposit for costs shall be required. A judgment or verdict of guilty...
• Section 3707.54 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1964
• Section 3707.55 - Acquisition Or Sale Of Real Property.
  (A) A board of health of a general health district may acquire, convey, lease, or enter into a contract to purchase, lease, or sell...
• Section 3707.56 - Protocols For Dispensing Naloxone.
  (A) As used in this section, "board of health" means a board of health of a city or general health district or the authority...
• Section 3707.57 - Bloodborne Infectious Disease Prevention Programs.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Bloodborne pathogens" means the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus. (2) "Board...
• Section 3707.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 3707.03 of the Revised Code, unless good and sufficient reason therefor is shown, is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (B)...

Last modified: October 10, 2016