Effective: June 23, 2021 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 22 – 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this chapter, “isolation” and “quarantine” have the same meanings as in section 3701.13 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of health of a city or general health district shall abate and remove all nuisances within its jurisdiction. […]
Effective: November 28, 1991 Latest Legislation: House Bill 248 – 119th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “railroad company” means a suburban railroad company or an interurban railroad company, as those terms are defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code. (B) A railroad company shall maintain railroad rights-of-way that it owns or […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When an order of the board of health of a city or general health district, made pursuant to section 3707.01 of the Revised Code, is neglected or disregarded, in whole or in part, the board may elect to cause the arrest and […]
Effective: October 2, 1969 Latest Legislation: House Bill 156 – 108th General Assembly When an order of the board of health of a city or general health district, made pursuant to section 3707.01 of the Revised Code, is not complied with in whole or in part, the board may petition the court of common pleas […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 361 – 100th General Assembly The board of health of a city or general health district shall abate all nuisances and may remove or correct all conditions detrimental to health or well-being found upon school property by serving an order upon the board of education, school board, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly In time of epidemic or threatened epidemic, or when a dangerous communicable disease is unusually prevalent, the board of health of a city or general health district, after a personal investigation by its members or executive officer to establish the facts in […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The board of health of a city or general health district shall not close public highways or prohibit travel thereon, interfere with public officers not afflicted with or directly exposed to a contagious or infectious disease, in the discharge of their official […]
Effective: February 12, 2004 Latest Legislation: House Bill 6 – 125th General Assembly (A) Each physician or other person called to attend a person suffering from cholera, plague, yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, or required by the department of health to be reported, shall […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When complaint is made or a reasonable belief exists that an infectious or contagious disease prevails in a house or other locality which has not been reported as provided in section 3707.06 of the Revised Code, the board of health of a […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a person known to have been exposed to a communicable disease declared quarantinable by the board of health of a city or general health district or the department of health is reported within its jurisdiction, the board shall at once restrict […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The board of health of a city or general health district may employ as many persons as are necessary to execute its orders and properly guard any house or place containing any person affected with or exposed to a communicable disease declared […]
Effective: April 9, 1981 Latest Legislation: House Bill 965 – 113th General Assembly When a person affected with yellow fever, typhus fever, or diphtheria has recovered and is no longer liable to communicate the disease to others, or has died, the attending physician shall furnish a certificate of the recovery or death to the board […]
Effective: June 23, 2021 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 22 – 134th General Assembly A board of health of a city or general health district, or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code, may only issue a quarantine or isolation order under this chapter that applies […]
Effective: April 9, 1981 Latest Legislation: House Bill 965 – 113th General Assembly The board of health of a city or general health district may destroy any infected clothing, bedding, or other article that cannot be made safe by disinfection, and shall furnish to the owner of the articles a receipt, of which the board […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The legislative authority of the municipal corporation, upon the presentation of the original receipt or written statement of the appraisers for articles or houses destroyed pursuant to section 3707.12 of the Revised Code, shall pay to the owner thereof, or other person […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a house or other place is quarantined because of contagious diseases, the board of health of the city or general health district shall provide, for all persons confined in such house or place, food, fuel, and all other necessaries of life, […]
Effective: June 17, 1999 Latest Legislation: House Bill 35 – 123rd General Assembly As used in this section, “alien” means an individual who is not a citizen of the United States. Any person that employs an alien who is not legally present in the United States and has a contagious or infectious disease contracted before […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No person isolated or quarantined for a communicable disease declared by the board of health of a city or general health district or the department of health to require isolation or quarantine shall attend any public, private, or parochial school or college, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a person with a contagious disease, quarantined in a county by a city or general health district, has a legal settlement in a municipal corporation or township within the same county but other than that in which quarantined, or has a […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The expenses for quarantining a county home or other county public institution shall be paid by the county when properly certified by the president and clerk of the board of health, or health commissioner where there is no board, of the city […]
