§16-3-7. Inflammation of the Eyes of the Newborn
Any inflammation, swelling, or unusual redness in either one or both eyes of any infant, either apart from, or together with any unnatural discharge from the eye or eyes of such infant, independent of the nature of the infection, if any, occurring at any time within two weeks after the birth of such infant, shall […]
§16-3-4a. Influenza Immunizations
(a) A hospital licensed pursuant to the provisions of article five-b of this chapter shall offer to an inpatient who is sixty-five years of age or older an influenza immunization prior to discharge from October 1 of every year and continuing through March 1 of the following year. (b) The immunizations may not be offered […]
§16-3-1. State Director of Health Authority to Quarantine and to Enforce Regulations; State Board of Health Authority to Issue Regulations to Control Infectious or Contagious Diseases
The state director of health is empowered to establish and strictly maintain quarantine at such places as he may deem proper and forbid and prevent the assembling of the people in any place, when the state director of health or any county or municipal health officer deems that the public health and safety so demand, […]
§16-3-2. Powers of County and Municipal Boards of Health to Establish Quarantine; Penalty for Violation
The county board of health of any county may declare quarantine therein, or in any particular district or place therein, whenever in their judgment it is necessary to prevent the spread of any communicable or infectious disease prevalent therein, or to prevent the introduction of any communicable or infectious disease prevailing in any other state, […]
§16-3-3. Communicable Diseases on Vessels or Trains; Offenses; Penalty
The state department of health, its agents and employees, and the local boards of health, in the absence of the state department, its agents and employees, when they have reason to believe that any steamboat or other watercraft navigating the Ohio river or its tributaries in this state, or any other of the waters of […]
§16-3-4. Compulsory Immunization of School Children; Information Disseminated; Offenses; Penalties
(a) Whenever a resident birth occurs, the commissioner shall promptly provide parents of the newborn child with information on immunizations mandated by this state or required for admission to a public, private and parochial school in this state or a state-regulated child care center. (b) Except as hereinafter provided, a child entering school or a […]