§ 2-266. Division of communicable disease control.

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The chief officer in charge of the division of communicable disease control shall be known as the commissioner of communicable disease control. He shall have charge of the work of preventing the spread of all such diseases and caring for persons afflicted therewith. He shall have charge of the administration of all ordinances relating to the prevention or suppression of all epidemic diseases, tuberculosis, venereal diseases and all other communicable diseases. He shall investigate and take measures including the exercise of the power of quarantine and detention to prevent the development and spreading of contagious and infectious diseases, and if necessary to the public health and safety may order the destruction of animals suffering from any contagious or infectious disease, and may disinfect, or order destroyed, buildings within which they have been sick with any such disease.

(Admin. Code 1967, § A5.51)

                    
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