2005 California Health and Safety Code Sections 120125-120150 HEALTH SERVICES

120125.  The department shall examine into the causes of
communicable disease in man and domestic animals occurring or likely
to occur in this state.
120130.  (a) The department shall establish a list of reportable
diseases and conditions and shall include the urgency of reporting
each disease and condition.  The list of reportable diseases and
conditions may include both communicable and noncommunicable
diseases.  The list may include those diseases that are either known
to be, or suspected of being, transmitted by milk or milk-based
products.  The list shall also include, but not be limited to,
diphtheria, listeria, salmonella, shigella, streptococcal infection
in food handlers or dairy workers, and typhoid.  The list may be
modified at any time by the department, after consultation with the
California Conference of Local Health Officers.  Modification of the
list shall be exempt from the administrative regulation and
rulemaking requirements of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section
11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and
shall be implemented without being adopted as a regulation, except
that the revised list shall be filed with the Secretary of State and
printed in the California Code of Regulations as required under
subdivision (d).  Those diseases listed as reportable shall be
properly reported as required to the department by the health
officer.
   (b) The department may from time to time adopt and enforce
regulations requiring strict or modified isolation, or quarantine,
for any of the contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases, if
in the opinion of the department the action is necessary for the
protection of the public health.
   (c) The health officer may require strict or modified isolation,
or quarantine, for any case of contagious, infectious, or
communicable disease, when this action is necessary for the
protection of the public health.
   (d) The list established pursuant to subdivision (a) and any
subsequent modifications shall be published in Title 17 of the
California Code of Regulations.
   (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no civil or
criminal penalty, fine, sanction, finding, or denial, suspension, or
revocation of licensure for any person or facility may be imposed
based upon a failure to provide the notification of a reportable
disease or condition that is required under this section, unless the
disease or condition that is required to be reported was printed in
the California Code of Regulations at least six months prior to the
date of the claimed failure to report.
120135.  The department may establish and maintain places of
quarantine or isolation.
120140.  Upon being informed by a health officer of any contagious,
infectious, or communicable disease the department may take measures
as are necessary to ascertain the nature of the disease and prevent
its spread.  To that end, the department may, if it considers it
proper, take possession or control of the body of any living person,
or the corpse of any deceased person.
120142.  (a) The state director may order examinations for
tuberculosis infection in the following persons for the purpose of
directing preventive measures:
   (1) Persons in close contact with persons with infectious
tuberculosis disease.
   (2) Other persons for whom the state director has reasonable
grounds to determine are at heightened risk of tuberculosis exposure.
   (b) An order for examination for tuberculosis infection shall be
in writing and shall include other terms and conditions as may be
necessary to protect the public health.
120145.  The department may quarantine, isolate, inspect, and
disinfect persons, animals, houses, rooms, other property, places,
cities, or localities, whenever in its judgment the action is
necessary to protect or preserve the public health.
120150.  The department may destroy such objects as bedding,
carpets, household goods, furnishings, materials, clothing, or
animals, when ordinary means of disinfection are considered unsafe,
and when the property is in its judgment, an imminent menace to the
public health.