2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 19.32.110: Diseased persons not to be employed — Health certificates.

(1) No person afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease shall work or be permitted to work in or about any refrigerated locker, nor in the handling, dealing nor processing of any human food in connection therewith.

(2) No person shall work or be permitted to work in or about any refrigerated locker in the handling, processing or dealing in any human food or any ingredient thereof without holding a certificate from a physician, duly accredited for that purpose by the department of health, certifying that such person has been examined and found free from any contagious or infectious disease. The department of health may fix a maximum fee, not exceeding two dollars which may be charged by a physician for such examination. Such certificate shall be effective for a period of six months and thereafter must be renewed following proper physical examination as aforesaid. Where such certificate is required and provided under municipal ordinance upon examination deemed adequate by the department, certificates issued thereunder shall be sufficient under this chapter.

(3) Any such certificate shall be revoked by the department of health at any time the holder thereof is found, after proper physical examination, to be afflicted with any communicable or infectious disease. Refusal of any person employed in such premises to submit to proper and reasonable physical examination upon written demand by the department of health or of the director of agriculture shall be cause for revocation of that person's health certificate.

[1991 c 3 § 287; 1985 c 213 § 11; 1943 c 117 § 6; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 6294-130. Formerly RCW 19.32.110 through 19.32.140.]

Savings -- Effective date -- 1985 c 213: See notes following RCW 43.20.050.