SECTIONS 120175-120250

120175.  Each health officer knowing or having reason to believethat any case of the diseases made reportable by regulation of thedepartment, or any other contagious, infectious or communicabledisease exists, or has recently existed, within the territory underhis or her jurisdiction, shall take measures as may be necessary toprevent the spread of the disease or occurrence of additional cases.120176.  During an outbreak of communicable disease, or upon theimminent and proximate threat of communicable disease outbreak orepidemic that threatens the public's health, all health careproviders, clinics, health care service plans, pharmacies, theirsuppliers, distributors, and other for-profit and nonprofit entitiesshall, upon request of the local health officer, disclose to thelocal health officer inventories of, critical medical supplies,equipment, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, or other products that may beused for the prevention of, or may be implicated in the transmissionof communicable disease. The local health officer shall keep thisproprietary information confidential.120180.  If the health officer of any county having a population of5,000,000 or more employs personnel as inspectors or investigators inthe enforcement of the Communicable Disease Prevention and ControlAct (Section 27), who are not otherwise licensed, registered, norcertified by this state, the personnel shall meet any one of thefollowing minimum standards and qualifications: (a) Possess a bachelor's degree in public health from aninstitution on the list of accredited colleges of the United StatesOffice of Education. (b) Possess a bachelor's degree with a minimum of 30 semesterunits of basic sciences from an institution on the list of accreditedcolleges of the United States Office of Education; or a statementfrom an accredited institution that the applicant has successfullycompleted a minimum of 16 semester units distributed among at leastthe following fields: public health and administration, epidemiology,public health statistics, public health microbiology, andcommunicable disease control. (c) Possess a bachelor's degree from an institution on the list ofaccredited colleges of the United States Office of Education; andhave had at least one year of full-time experience or the equivalentin investigation or inspection work in public health or lawenforcement. (d) Be employed as an inspector or investigator in communicabledisease prevention and control by a county health department in theState of California, and have passed an official civil serviceexamination therefor prior to the effective date of this section.120185.  In the case of a local epidemic of disease, the healthofficer shall report at those times as are requested by thedepartment all facts concerning the disease, and the measures takento abate and prevent its spread.120190.  Each health officer shall immediately report by telegraphor telephone to the department every discovered or known case orsuspect case of those diseases designated for immediate reporting bythe department. Within 24 hours after investigation each healthofficer shall make reports as the department may require.120195.  Each health officer shall enforce all orders, rules, andregulations concerning quarantine or isolation prescribed or directedby the department.120200.  Each health officer, whenever required by the department,shall establish and maintain places of quarantine or isolation thatshall be subject to the special directions of the department.120205.  No quarantine shall be established by a county or cityagainst another county or city without the written consent of thedepartment.120210.  Whenever in the judgment of the department it is necessaryfor the protection or preservation of the public health, each healthofficer shall, when directed by the department, do the following: (a) Quarantine or isolate and disinfect persons, animals, housesor rooms, in accordance with general and specific instructions of thedepartment. (b) Destroy bedding, carpets, household goods, furnishings,materials, clothing, or animals, when ordinary means of disinfectionare considered unsafe, and when the property is, in the judgment ofthe department, an imminent menace to the public health. When the property is destroyed pursuant to this section, thegoverning body of the locality where the destruction occurs may makeadequate provision for compensation in proper cases for those injuredthereby.120215.  Upon receiving information of the existence of contagious,infectious, or communicable disease for which the department may fromtime to time declare the need for strict isolation or quarantine,each health officer shall: (a) Ensure the adequate isolation of each case, and appropriatequarantine of the contacts and premises. (b) Follow local rules and regulations, and all general andspecial rules, regulations, and orders of the department, in carryingout the quarantine or isolation.120220.  When quarantine or isolation, either strict or modified, isestablished by a health officer, all persons shall obey his or herrules, orders, and regulations.120225.  A person subject to quarantine or strict isolation,residing or in a quarantined building, house, structure, or othershelter, shall not go beyond the lot where the building, house,structure, or other shelter is situated, nor put himself or herselfin immediate communication with any person not subject to quarantine,other than the physician, the health officer or persons authorizedby the health officer.120230.  No instructor, teacher, pupil, or child who resides whereany contagious, infectious, or communicable disease exists or hasrecently existed, that is subject to strict isolation or quarantineof contacts, shall be permitted by any superintendent, principal, orteacher of any college, seminary, or public or private school toattend the college, seminary, or school, except by the writtenpermission of the health officer.120235.  No quarantine shall be raised until every exposed room,together with all personal property in the room, has been adequatelytreated, or, if necessary, destroyed, under the direction of thehealth officer; and until all persons having been under strictisolation are considered noninfectious.120240.  If, pursuant to Section 120130, a modified isolation orderis issued, and the order is not complied with, the local healthofficer may, in that instance, issue a strict isolation order.120245.  Each health officer, other than a county health officer, inthe county shall transmit to the county health officer at leastweekly in writing a report showing the number and character ofinfectious, contagious, or communicable diseases reported, and theirlocation.120250.  All physicians, nurses, clergymen, attendants, owners,proprietors, managers, employees, and persons living with, orvisiting any sick person, in any hotel, lodginghouse, house,building, office, structure, or other place where any person is illof any infectious, contagious, or communicable disease, shallpromptly report that fact to the health officer, together with thename of the person, if known, the place where he or she is confined,and the nature of the disease, if known.