Montebello Municipal Code Ch. 8.04 County Health Code

The "Health and Safety Code of the County of Los Angeles," the same being Title 11 of the Los Angeles County Code, and the "Public Health License Code of the County of Los Angeles," the same being Division 1 of Title 8 of the Los Angeles County Code, as those titles have been amended through and including March 23, 2005, are adopted as the health and safety code for the city (hereinafter referred to as the "health code.") Three copies of the health code are on file in the office of the city clerk of the city.

(Ord. 2282 § 1, 2005: Ord. 2104 § 1, 1994: prior code § 5100 (A))

Wherever the health code uses the following words or phrases, they, respectively, shall be deemed to have the following meanings ascribed to them:

A. "County" or "county of Los Angeles" means the city of Montebello; and

B. "Health officer" or "county health officer" means the city manager of the city of Montebello.

(Ord. 2104 § 2, 1994: prior code § 5100 (B))

Subparagraph (b) of Section 11.12.380 of the health code as adopted by Section 8.04.010 is amended to read as follows:

B. EXEMPTIONS: The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the following:

(1) The sale of certified milk or cream;

(2) Delivery or sale of milk to wholesalers or to pasteurization plants for purposes of being pasteurized;

(3) The sale of market milk which is not pasteurized, providing that the following conditions are met:

a) That such milk is labeled in an appropriate manner "not pasteurized";

b) That such sales do not exceed 75 gallons per day;

c) That vendor shall have been engaged in the sale of such market milk for a period of not less than 5 years preceding November 1, 1966.

(Ord. 2104 § 3, 1994: prior code § 5101)

Whenever a nuisance endangering the public health shall be ascertained to exist on any premises or other place, such nuisance may be abated as provided by procedures established in Chapter 8.16 and subject to penalties as permitted by law. The city may recover all abatement costs pursuant to Chapters 1.12 and 8.16.

(Ord. 2104 § 4, 1994)

(Ord. No. 2365, § 6, 1-28-2015)

A. No person shall dispose of, leave or discard outside the exterior walls of the building wherein used any container, bottle, syringe, hypodermic needle or hypodermic syringe, or needles, designed for or used in dispensing, giving or injecting medicines, drugs or poisons, or any used bandage, dressing or gauze that has been used in treating or caring for a patient, except as follows:

1. By placing the foregoing in metal trash containers which have overlapping, tight fitting and fly-tight lids. The lids shall be secured in place at all times while the container is not being filled or emptied. The containers, except while being filled or emptied under supervision of the authorized persons, shall be sealed by a lid securely fastened with a padlock or similar locking device under the control of such persons; or

2. By incineration in an incinerator approved by the Air Quality Management District.

B. Notwithstanding the foregoing, bandages, dressings or gauze used in treating or caring for infectious or contagious diseases shall either be incinerated or placed in said containers securely wrapped in heavy paper or plastic bags, the open ends of which have been tied or stapled so as to securely contain the infectious material therein.

(Ord. 2104 § 6, 1994)

A. All medical test materials must be stored in a secure manner.

B. For purposes of this section, "medical test materials" means any materials, including blood, tissue, urine, stool samples, secretions and other similar human or animal materials which:

1. Are collected for the purposes of medical, biological or scientific testing; and

2. Have yet to be picked up for transfer or actually transferred to the facility at which the test is to occur.

C. For purposes of this section, "stored in a secure manner" means:

1. Stored inside a hospital, doctor's office, medical facility or similar establishment; or

2. Stored in a locked enclosure adjacent to a hospital, doctor's office, medical facility or similar establishment. Any enclosure must be reasonably secure against penetration by the public and must not be easily removable from its location.

(Ord. 2104 § 7, 1994)

All violation of the health code, as adopted by the city pursuant to Section 8.04.010 herein, shall be a misdemeanor and subject to the penalty provisions of Chapter 1.12 of the Montebello Municipal Code.

(Ord. 2282 § 2, 2005: Ord. 2104 § 8, 1994: prior code § 5100 (C))