Division 22 — DEPARTMENTS, BUREAUS AND AGENCIES›Chapter 10 — PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT›Article 5 — PREVENTIVE MEDICAL CARE FOR CITY EMPLOYEES EXPOSED TO COMMUNICABLE
Los Angeles Municipal Code § 22.211 Conditions for Providing Preventive Care
Los Angeles Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Los Angeles
Cite as: Los Angeles Municipal Code § 22.211 · Text as of 2026-10-04
The General Manager of the Personnel Department shall furnish any employee of the City of Los Angeles preventive medical care for exposure to any communicable disease which is not a common disease known as a risk of the communality (such as a cold or influenza) when all of the following conditions exist in the cumulative.
a. The employee has actually and closely been exposed to the disease while in the course and scope of the employee’s City
employment;
b. The General Manager of the Personnel Department has determined the City would be liable to provide the employee with
workers’ compensation benefits pursuant to Division IV of the California Labor Code if the employee contracted the disease;
c. There exists and is available a medically acceptable form of preventive medical care for exposure to the disease and it is
medically advisable to administer such preventive medical care to the employee.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 141,087, Eff. 11-20-70.
Sec. 22.211.1. General Manager of Personnel Department to Select Doctor.¶
Preventive medical care provided for by this article shall be administered only by or under the direction of a medical doctor selected to administer such care by the General Manager of the Personnel Department.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 141,087, Eff. 11-20-70.
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