HomeMy WebLinkAbout0227_0011AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING THE MAMT.-M AND METHOD OF THE.CARE
OF CASES OF CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASBB AND OF THE PRE-
VE=.MION OF SUCH DISEASBSt AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLA=
TION OF THH PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE.
BB IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Georgetown,
Texas:
Section 1. The City Health Officer and the health inspec-
torep and each of them, are hereby authorized to stop, examine and
detain any and all persons coming, or suspected of coming, from
any place infected, or believed to be infected, with any contag-
ious or infectious disease, and they shall have full power and
authority to prevent any such person, or persons, from entering
said city, and they may also cause any person suspected of being
infected with any contagious or infectious disease to be sent to
a hospital provided by the city, or other place, for treatment,
or to any place of detention that may from time to time be pro-
vided, or said health officer, or inspector, or any of them#
may cause any such person or persons to be confined and isolated
in the rooms or premises where they are found, and use any need-
ful means, including the operation of compulsory vaccinnatin# to
prevent the spread of any contagious disease that may efound
or be suspected to exist.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of all persons infected
with any disease of a pestilential, contagious or infectious
character, or who, from exposure to contagion from such diseasep
may be liable to endanger others who may come in contact with
them, to strictly observe such commands or injunctions as may
be given them by the city health officer, or the County Health
Officer, or the State Health officer, to prevent the spread of
such diseases: and it shall be lawful for such health officers,
or either of them, to require any such person thus infected or ex-
posed to infection to remain within designated premises for such Ie.
ngth of time as such health officer may deem necessary.
Section 3. Such Health Officers, or either of them,
shall have authority to prevent, by orders issued to that effect
or by other means, any person to enter or leave or loiter around
any room, place or premises where any person is isolated or
confined under the provisions of either of the two preceding
sections of this ordinance.
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