PART 1. ADMINISTRATION OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL [120100. - 120305.]

Part 1 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7.

§§ 120100–120305 · 52 sections

1. CHAPTER 1. General Provisions and Definitions §§ 120100–120115 · 4 sections

   • § 120100 “Health officer,” as used in the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act (Section 27) includes county, city, and district health officers, and city and…
   • § 120105 Whenever in the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act (Section 27), service or notice of any order or demand is provided for, it shall be sufficient…
   • § 120110 As used in the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act (Section 27) a person has “active tuberculosis disease” when either one of the following occur:…
   • § 120115 As used in the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act (Section 27) the following terms have the following meanings, unless the context indicates…
2. CHAPTER 1.5. COVID-19-Related Public Health Orders or Mandatory Guidance §§ 120120–120123 · 4 sections

   • § 120120 As used in this chapter, “COVID-19” means the 2019 novel coronavirus disease.
   • § 120121 Notwithstanding any other law, including Sections 120130, 120140, and 120145, when the department issues a statewide order or mandatory guidance related to…
   • § 120122 Notwithstanding any other law, including Section 120175, when a local health officer issues a jurisdictionwide local order, not in conflict with state law or…
   • § 120123 This chapter shall remain operative while an order or mandatory guidance issued by the department or a local health officer as described in this chapter is in…
3. CHAPTER 2. Functions and Duties of the State Department of Health Services §§ 120125–120164 · 13 sections

   • § 120125 The department shall examine into the causes of communicable disease in man and domestic animals occurring or likely to occur in this state.
   • § 120130 (a) The department shall establish a list of reportable diseases and conditions. For each reportable disease and condition, the department shall specify the…
   • § 120135 The department may establish and maintain places of quarantine or isolation.
   • § 120140 Upon being informed by a health officer of any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease the department may take measures as are necessary to ascertain…
   • § 120142 (a) The state director may order examinations for tuberculosis infection in the following persons for the purpose of directing preventive measures: (1) Persons…
   • § 120145 The department may quarantine, isolate, inspect, and disinfect persons, animals, houses, rooms, other property, places, cities, or localities, whenever in its…
   • § 120150 The department may destroy such objects as bedding, carpets, household goods, furnishings, materials, clothing, or animals, when ordinary means of disinfection…
   • § 120155 Pursuant to Section 11158 of the Government Code, the sheriff of each county, or city and county, may enforce within the county, or the city and county, all…
   • § 120160 (a) Any manufacturer or distributor of the influenza vaccine, or nonprofit health care service plan that exclusively contracts with a single medical group in a…
   • § 120161 If the department receives a report of a case of coccidioidomycosis after the department’s reporting deadline for a specified year, the department shall…
   • § 120162 By April 15 of each year, the department shall collect data on coccidioidomycosis cases from both of the following: (a) The California Reportable Disease…
   • § 120163 (a) If the department collects data on coccidioidomycosis cases from a local health officer and removes discrepant data from its internal dataset for any…
   • § 120164 (a) Consistent with subdivision (b), the list of immunizations, items, and services that were recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force…
4. CHAPTER 3. Functions and Duties of Local Health Officers §§ 120175–120255 · 19 sections

   • § 120175 Each health officer knowing or having reason to believe that any case of the diseases made reportable by regulation of the department, or any other contagious,…
   • § 120175.5 (a) During an outbreak of a communicable disease, or upon the imminent and proximate threat of a communicable disease outbreak or epidemic that threatens the…
   • § 120176 During an outbreak of communicable disease, or upon the imminent and proximate threat of communicable disease outbreak or epidemic that threatens the public’s…
   • § 120180 If the health officer of any county having a population of 5,000,000 or more employs personnel as inspectors or investigators in the enforcement of the…
   • § 120185 In the case of a local epidemic of disease, the health officer shall report at those times as are requested by the department all facts concerning the disease,…
   • § 120190 Each health officer shall immediately report by telegraph or telephone to the department every discovered or known case or suspect case of those diseases…
   • § 120195 Each health officer shall enforce all orders, rules, and regulations concerning quarantine or isolation prescribed or directed by the department.
   • § 120200 Each health officer, whenever required by the department, shall establish and maintain places of quarantine or isolation that shall be subject to the special…
   • § 120205 No quarantine shall be established by a county or city against another county or city without the written consent of the department.
   • § 120210 Whenever in the judgment of the department it is necessary for the protection or preservation of the public health, each health officer shall, when directed by…
   • § 120215 Upon receiving information of the existence of contagious, infectious, or communicable disease for which the department may from time to time declare the need…
   • § 120220 When quarantine or isolation, either strict or modified, is established by a health officer, all persons shall obey his or her rules, orders, and regulations.
   • § 120225 A person subject to quarantine or strict isolation, residing or in a quarantined building, house, structure, or other shelter, shall not go beyond the lot…
   • § 120230 No instructor, teacher, pupil, or child who resides where any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease exists or has recently existed, that is subject…
   • § 120235 No quarantine shall be raised until every exposed room, together with all personal property in the room, has been adequately treated, or, if necessary,…
   • § 120240 If, pursuant to Section 120130, a modified isolation order is issued, and the order is not complied with, the local health officer may, in that instance, issue…
   • § 120245 Each health officer, other than a county health officer, in the county shall transmit to the county health officer at least weekly in writing a report showing…
   • § 120250 All physicians, nurses, clergymen, attendants, owners, proprietors, managers, employees, and persons living with, or visiting any sick person, in any hotel,…
   • § 120255 (a) Any electronic tool used by a health officer, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 2500 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, for the…
5. CHAPTER 3.5. Communicable Diseases Exposure Notification Act §§ 120260–120263 · 5 sections

   • § 120260 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Early knowledge of infection with communicable disease is important in order to permit exposed…
   • § 120260.5 The communicable disease testing and notification procedures provided for in this chapter are in addition to the notification to which prehospital emergency…
   • § 120261 For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Attending physician of the source patient” means any physician and surgeon licensed…
   • § 120262 Notwithstanding Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 120975) or any other law, the blood or other tissue or material of a source patient may be tested, and an…
   • § 120263 (a) No health care provider, as defined in this chapter, shall be subject to civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action for performing…
6. CHAPTER 4. Violations §§ 120275–120305 · 7 sections

   • § 120275 Any person who, after notice, violates, or who, upon the demand of any health officer, refuses or neglects to conform to, any rule, order, or regulation…
   • § 120280 Inasmuch as the orders provided for by Section 121365 are for the protection of the public health, any person who, after service upon him or her of an order of…
   • § 120285 Upon any subsequent conviction under the provisions of Section 120280, the court may order the person confined for a period not exceeding one year for the…
   • § 120290 (a) (1) A defendant is guilty of intentional transmission of an infectious or communicable disease if all of the following apply: (A) The defendant knows that…
   • § 120295 Any person who violates Section 120130 or any section in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 120175, but excluding Section 120195), is guilty of a misdemeanor,…
   • § 120300 The district attorney of the county where a violation of Sections 121365 and 120280 may be committed, shall prosecute all those violations and, upon the…
   • § 120305 Every person who possesses any intoxicating liquor in or on any public hospital or sanatorium providing for the treatment of tuberculosis or within the…