Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 8.08 Communicable Diseases

Whenever a person affected with pneumonia of a communicable, contagious or infectious nature or with influenza is reported to the Health Department, and upon making investigation the Health Department is satisfied that the report is correct, or that the condition of such person is strongly suggestive of communicable, contagious or infectious pneumonia or influenza, the Health Department shall establish a quarantine of the premises where the disease exists by affixing a placard, consisting of a white card with the name of the disease printed thereon in blue letters not less than two and one-half inches (2½") in height, in a conspicuous place at the principal place of entrance of the premises, or at the principal place of entrance to the room, suite, apartment or flat where the premises is a hotel, apartment, lodging house, or rooming house, and the placard shall remain so affixed for five (5) days after all symptoms of the disease have disappeared and the premises have been thoroughly disinfected, or longer, at the discretion of the Health Department.

(Prior code § 5120)

No person shall leave or enter any premises or remove any article from any premises so quarantined without permission in writing from the Health Department.

(Prior code § 5120.3)

Every physician, nurse, clergyman, attendant, parent or guardian of any person ill with communicable, contagious or infectious pneumonia or influenza shall immediately report the name, age and address of such ill person to the Health Department, and every owner, proprietor or manager of an apartment house, hotel, flat building or lodging house shall immediately report to the Health Department the name, age and address of every person ill of communicable, contagious or infectious pneumonia or influenza, in such apartment house, hotel, flat building or lodging house.

(Prior code § 5120.4)

It shall be the duty of every physician, householder, or other person in the City to report to the Health Officer immediately in writing every person in the City who is or whom they may have reason to believe is sick from cholera, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any other contagious or infectious disease.

(Prior code § 5120.5)

It shall be the duty of the Health Officer, as soon as any case of any person suffering from cholera, smallpox, diphtheria, yellow fever or scarlet fever or other dangerous or infectious disease is brought to his knowledge to immediately cause the house or building in which the person is located to be placarded in a conspicuous place, with a placard setting forth the fact of the existence of such disease, and the placard shall not be removed, nor shall any person unauthorized by the Health Officer be permitted to enter or leave such dwelling or building until the Health Officer is satisfied that all danger from contagion is past and has removed the quarantine and placard.

(Prior code § 5120.6)

Any person, householder or hotel keeper having a person suffering from any contagious or infectious disease in any house, dwelling or premises owned, conducted or controlled by him shall renovate, clean, purify and disinfect the same to any extent and in such manner as the Health Department may direct for the purpose of preventing further infection.

(Prior code § 5120.7)

All persons attending or coming in contact with a case of infectious or contagious disease shall take such precautions against the spread of such disease and carry out such sanitary regulations as the Health Department may direct.

(Prior code § 5120.8)

No person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease shall be removed from or leave the place where he first became sick without a permit from the Health Officer. The Health Officer may cause to be removed from such houses as cannot be satisfactorily quarantined, to a hospital or other place provided by the City for quarantine, any person affected with smallpox, yellow fever, typhus fever, glanders, leprosy, Asiatic cholera or other infectious or contagious diseases.

(Prior code § 5120.9)

It is the duty of the Health Officer to notify the superintendent of schools of the name and location of any person who is pupil at a public school, or the principal, teacher or other person in charge of any private school if a pupil at any such private school, when such person is suffering from any contagious disease.

(Prior code § 5120.10)

It shall be the duty of every superintendent, principal or teacher, of any public or private school in the City to exclude from school any person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, and any person who may belong or reside with a family or in the same house in which a person is affected with any infectious or contagious disease, until a permit is obtained from a registered physician stating that such person has permission to attend school.

(Prior code § 5120.11)

The Health Department may take such measures as it may from time to time deem necessary to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

(Prior code § 5120.12)

It is the duty of the Health Department to make any and all regulations for the proper management and control of persons and places under quarantine in the City, and is the duty of the Health Officer to enforce the same.

(Prior code § 5120.14)

That it is unlawful for any person to bring into the City any person afflicted with Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, membranous croup, leprosy, anthrax or glanders affecting human beings.

(Prior code § 5120.15)

No owner, agent, master or other officer in charge of any vessel, steamboat or other watercraft, except vessels, steamboats or other watercraft engaged in domestic commerce, shall cause or permit the vessel, steamboat or other watercraft to lie alongside any wharf or dock in the City unless each chain, hawser, rope or line of any kind extending from any vessel, steamboat or other watercraft is equipped with and has properly and securely attached thereto, in good working order, a rat shield or guard of such design and in such manner as shall be approved by the City Health Officer.

(Prior code § 5120.16)

No person in charge of any building, premises, or part thereof shall refuse admission thereto to any inspector or other representative of the Health Department between the hours of nine o'clock (9:00 a.m.) in the morning and five o'clock (5:00 p.m.) in the afternoon of any business day when such inspector or other representative has announced his intention of entering such building, premises, or part thereof, for the purpose of inspecting it and ascertaining whether there exists therein or thereon any violation of the provisions of this Chapter; nor shall any person deny such access to such inspectors or representatives at any reasonable hour for purposes of quarantine.

(Prior code § 5120.17)

All food products or other products or goods liable to attract or to become infested with rats, whether such products or goods are kept for sale or any other purpose, shall be so protected as to prevent rats from gaining access thereto or coming in contact therewith. All buildings and basement walls thereof within which such products are stored or kept shall be constructed or repaired in such a manner as to prevent rats from being harbored thereunder or within the walls thereof.

(Prior code § 5120.18)

All public and private docks and wharves shall be so protected as to prevent rats from gaining entrance to such docks or wharves, at either high or low tide, from vessels anchored or moored alongside of such docks or wharves, or from other sources, and all food products stored in docks or wharves shall be so kept and stored as to prevent rats from gaining access thereto or coming in contact therewith. All docks and wharves shall be subjected to a continuous rat eradication and control program. The Health Officer shall establish methods and scope of trapping and control.

(Prior code § 5120.19)

All slaughterhouses of every kind and nature shall be so protected as to prevent rats from gaining access to the building or buildings thereof, and all holes and openings in the building or basement walls shall be thoroughly stopped with cement or other material approved by the Health Officer, and all food products stored in slaughterhouses shall be so kept as to prevent rats from coming in contact therewith.

(Prior code § 5120.20)

All buildings, places and premises whatsoever in the City shall at once be placed and shall continuously be kept by the owner or the occupant thereof in a clean and sanitary condition and free from rats.

(Prior code § 5120.21)

Before the City issues a building demolition permit, the owner shall present to the Building Official written certification from the Health Officer that the building is free from rat or vermin infestation.

(Ord. C-6121 § 1, 1984)

No rubbish, waste or manure shall be placed, left, dumped or permitted to accumulate or remain in any building, place or premises in the City so that the same shall or may afford food or a harboring or breeding place for rats.

(Prior code § 5120.22)

The owner of any container provided for the storage or reception of refuse or garbage shall keep such container in a clean condition and in good repair to prevent fly breeding, odors, or other nuisance.

(Ord. C-5320 § 19, 1977: prior code § 5120.23)

No person shall permit any dead animal, manure, garbage, refuse, trash, decaying or offensive material to remain on any premises owned, controlled, or occupied by such person, or to deposit any such material upon any vacant lot or public street or place. Salvageable material shall be maintained or stored in a manner to prevent the possibility of a rodent harborage or breeding site for other insects. No person having control of, owning or occupying a premises shall permit any wastewater or other liquid to drain upon, drain from, or pool upon any such premises. Any yard, stable, or other enclosure where any animals, birds or fowl are kept shall be maintained in such a manner as to prevent a rodent or insect harborage or create an unhealthy or offensive condition.

(Ord. C-5320 § 20, 1977: prior code § 5120.24)

Every lodging, tenement or apartment house, and also any yard, court, passage, or alley connected with or belonging to such house, must be kept clean and free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, garbage or other offensive material.

(Ord. C-5320 § 21, 1977: prior code § 5120.25)

Every person conducting or managing any lodging, tenement or apartment house must take adequate precautions to prevent any improper substances entering any water closet, sink, hopper or drain, and must remove such improper substances when placed in a water closet, sink, hopper or drain.

(Ord. C-5320 § 22, 1977: prior code § 5120.26)

No person shall deposit swill, garbage, bottles, ashes, cans, coal, or other such improper substances in water closets, sinks, drains or hoppers connected to a sewer, except when such facility is equipped with a garbage disposal unit.

(Ord. C-5320 § 23, 1977: prior code § 5120.27)