Section 22-B210. INVESTIGATIONS AND ENFORCEMENT

 

210.1Upon receiving a report of the existence of a case or suspected case of a communicable disease, or of a communicable disease contact or carrier, the Director shall make any investigation that he or she deems necessary for the purpose of determining the source of infection and of determining if the proper management and control measures are in effect.

 

210.2In order to make an investigation under this section, the Director may enter upon and inspect any public or private property in the District.

 

210.3Where the Director has probable cause to believe that sectors of a communicable disease or sources of a communicable disease have been identified, the Director shall cause to be instituted whatever preventive measures as the Director may deem necessary to eradicate immediately the vectors and sources of the communicable disease.

 

210.4Any person having or suspected of having a communicable disease, or any person who is suspected of being a communicable disease contact or carrier, shall, when directed by the Director, submit to an examination for the purpose of determining the existence of a communicable disease.

 

210.5A person suspected of having a communicable disease, or a person who is suspected of being a communicable disease contact or carrier, shall submit specimens or permit the obtaining of authentic specimens of body secretions, excretions, body fluids, and discharges for laboratory examinations, when required by the Director. These specimens shall be authenticated, when required by the Director.

 

210.6The Director may authorize or order a placard to be posted on the premises occupied by any person affected with a communicable disease.

 

210.7No placard authorized or ordered by the Director to be posted shall be mutilated, defaced, obliterated, concealed, or removed, except by authorization of the Director.

 

210.8The Director shall issue a Removal and Detention Order and take whatever further proceedings may be required by Sections 1 through 14 of the Act (D.C. Official Code §§ 7-131 through 7-144 (2001 ed.)), whenever the Director has probable cause to believe that any person is affected with, or is a carrier of, a communicable disease, and whenever the Director has probable cause to believe that that person is likely to be dangerous to the life or health of any other person because of the following reasons:

 

(a)Improper facilities or the lack of facilities for isolation; or

 

(b)Because of the person's non-cooperation or carelessness, including his or her refusal to submit to examination or refusal to be properly treated or cared for, the person is likely to be a danger to public health.

 

210.9Each infected person, contact, or carrier shall comply with the instructions given him or her by the physician or other person responsible for the control of a case of communicable disease.

 

210.10 Each parent, guardian, or person in charge of an infected person or infected animal, carrier, or contact shall comply with instructions given by the physician, veterinarian, or other person in charge of the case concerning the control of the infected person or infected animal, carrier, or contact.

 

 

authority

Section 1 of An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make regulations to prevent and control the spread of communicable and preventable diseases ("Act"), approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1408, ch. 601, § 1; D.C. Official Code § 7-131 (2001 ed.)), and § 2 of Mayor's Order 98-141, dated August 20, 1998.

source

Commissioners’ Order 61-1117 (June 20, 1961), published as Health Regulations at §§ 8-5:101-205; as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 55 DCR 5980 (May 23, 2008).