1970-001ORDINANCE NO. 0 -70 -1
HEALTH ORDINANCE
CREATION OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT
BE IT ORDAIN ,0,- BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE, COOK AND LAKE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS, AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Creation. There is hereby created a Health
Department. This department shall consist of such employees as
may be assigned to such department from time to time by the
Village Manager.
SECTION 2. Sanitarian. There is hereby created the
position of Sanitarian who shall be appointed by the Village
Manager. The Sanitarian shall be a legally qualified Sanitarian
under Illinois State Statutes. He shall have the powers of a
police officer and a conservator of the peace.
SECTION 3. Duties of Sanitarian. It shall be the duty
of the Sanitarian to enforce all rules and regulations of the
Department of Health of the Village and of the Department of
Health of the State of Illinois. The Sanitarian shall examine
all cases of contagious disease arising in the Village or
within one -half mile of the corporate limits thereof and shall
see to the enforcement of quarantine rules and shall determine
the time for raising quarantine. He shall give to the Village
Manager and Board of Trustees information and advice concerning
the health of the Village and shall perform such other duties
as may be assigned to him by the Village Manager.
SECTION 4. Analysis. It shall be the duty of the Sanitarian
•
•
to make analysis of any food or drink alleged to be tainted or
unwholesome, and to analyze the drinking water of the Village
whenever requested to do so by the Village Manager.
SECTION 5. Inspections. The Sanitarian shall assist in
the enforcement of all ordinances relating to the sale, delivery
or storage of food or drink intended for human consumption, and
he shall make or cause to be made such tests, analyses and in-
spections as may be necessary for this purpose.
SECTION 6. Contractual Services. The Board of Trustees
may, from time to time, by resolution, contract with any one or
more persons, firms, corporations or municipalities for the in-
spection of food establishments, analysis and inspection of food
and drink or for the performance of any other duties which are
imposed on the Sanitarian or the Health Department by any pro -
vision;of the Village ordinances for such compensation and sub-
ject to such terms and conditions as the Board of Trustees may
deem desirable.
CONTROL OF DISEASE
SECTION 7. Report Required. It is hereby required that
any physician, attendant, householder, principal or teacher of
any school or any other person having knowledge of any known or
suspected contagious, infectious or communicable disease, or of
any other disease dangerous to the public health shall report
same immediately to the Sanitarian.
SECTION 8. Mental Illness. The Board of Health may in its
discretion designate mental illnesses as having a deleterious effect
- 2 -
upon persons other than the patient. Within the limits of avail-
able medical knowledge, the Sanitarian shall be responsible for
establishing and maintaining such procedures as will alert the
contracts, and as will assist them in avoiding the ill consequences
of exposure to such patients. The Sanitarian is authorized to
take such actions as will prevent the development of or minimize the
effect of such psychiatric illnesses in the Village. The Sanitarian
is authorized to expedite the attainment of relief for the patient
having psychiatric illness.
SECTION 9. Diseases Transmissible between Man and Animals.
It shall be the duty of any owner or custodian of any animals to
report the occurrence among such animals of any disease which is
transmissible to human beings to the Sanitarian. The owner or
custodian shall care for or dispose of such animal as provided in
the state statutes or in the rules of regulations of the state
department of agriculture and the ordinances of the Village of
Buffalo Grove.
SECTION 10. Communicable Diseases - Definitions. For the
purposes of this Article the following words and phrases shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(a) Isolation. The word "isolation" shall mean the
separation of a person suffering from a communicable disease ,a
carrier of the infecting organism, or a person suspected of having
such a disease or of being a carrier, from other.persons in such
places and under such conditions as will prevent the direct or
indirect transmission of the infectious agent.
(b) Quarantine. The word "quarantine" shall mean the
- 3 -
limitation of freedom of movement of any person who has been ex-
posed to a communicable disease.
SECTION 11. Enforcement of State Law. The Sanitarian shall
enforce all state statutes and the rules and regulations of the
state department of public health and the ordinances of the Village
of Buffalo Grove relative to the control of communicable diseases.
SECTION 12. Investigation, Isolation and Quarantine.
(a) The Sanitarian or his duly authorized representative
shall make such investigation as in his judgment may be necessary
to determine the presence or absence of any communicable disease
and if any such be found or suspected, he shall adopt such measures
of isolation and quarantine as are necessary for the prevention
of the spread of such disease, and for the relief of the patient
and other members of the household, and to these ends he or his
duly authorized representative may enter any premises where he
reasonably suspects the presence of any such disease.
(b) The Sanitarian is authorized to isolate persons ill
with communicable diseases and carriers, establish modification
of isolation where indicated, to quarantine contacts to communicable
diseases during the incubation period of such disease, to modify
quarantine where indicated, and to placard premises in which
persons isolated or quarantined because of communicable diseases
are so isolated or quarantined.
(c) The Sanitarian is authorized to designate the place
in which persons ill with a communicable disease shall be isolated,
and may order the removal of the patient thereto at public expense,
and to designate the limits within which contacts to communicable
diseases shall be quarantined.
- 4 -
SECTION 13. Material for Laboratory Examination. The
Sanitarian or his representative shall secure material for laboratory
examination to assist in determining the diagnosis of illness or
of the existence of the carrier state in any person whenever in
his judgment such procedure is necessary, and any person when re-
quested by him, shall provide such material or permit such material
to be taken.
SECTION 14.
Isolation or Restriction of Carriers.
The Sanitarian or his representative may isolate or restrict
the movement of carriers of the infectious agents of communicable
diseases until such carriers are shown by laboratory tests to be
free from the specific organisms of the disease.
SECTION 15.
Emergency Measures. When a communicable
disease exists in or near the community to the extent that an
epidemic exists or may develope, and the Board of Trustees deems
the situation an emergency, it may provide that persons who cannot
provide evidence of effective immunity naturally or artificially
induced against such disease shall not be permitted to attend
any school or other public gathering. In such an emergency it
shall be the duty of the Sanitarian to cause immunization of all
persons who are unable to employ a private physician and to ex-
pedite the immunization of all persons through mass procedures if,
in the opinion of the Sanitarian, such mass procedures are indicated.
A person shall be deemed unable to employ a private physician
if he states that he is unable to employ a private physician.
MISCELLANEOUS HEALTH LAWS
SECTION 16. Water Courses. The obstruction or pollution
of any water course or source of water supply in the Village is
hereby declared to be a nuisance. It shall be unlawful for any
- 5 -
person to obstruct or pollute any such water course or source
of water supply.
SECTION 17. Stagnant Pools. Any stagnant pool of water
in the Village is hereby declared to be a nuisance. It shall be
unlawful for any person to permit any such stagnant pool of water
to exist or remain on any property under his control or ownership.
SECTION 18. Drinking Cups. It shall be unlawful for
any person to maintain any common drinking cup or cups, dipper
or other similar utensil for the use of more than one person in
any public hall, theater, store or other place frequented by the
public.
SECTION 19. Spitting. It shall be unlawful for any person
to spit on any public sidewalk or street or other public place,
or on the floor, stairway or walls of any hall, theater, store,
public vehicle or other place frequented by the public or to which
the public is invited.
SECTION 20. Sewage. Any method for the disposal of human
excrement other than by depositing in the public sanitary sewer is
hereby designated as hazardous to the public health. No person
shall build or maintain or allow to exist on any premises any device
for the disposal of human excrement which is hazardous to the
public health, except by written permission of the Corporate
Authority, which permission may be rescinded at the discretion of
the Corporate Authority; except, that such permission shall be re-
scinded by the Corporate Authorities whenever a public sanitary
sewer connecting point is four hundred feet or less distance from
any part of a premises whereon disposal of human excrement is by
a hazardous method.
- 6 -
SECTION 21. Insects. It shall be unlawful to permit any
premises or vacant areas in the Village to become a breeding site
for flies or other insects or to become infected with flies or other
insects in such a way as to endanger health or permit the spread
of such flies or other insects to other premises or vacant areas.
SECTION 22. Rodents. It shall be unlawful to permit any
premises, or vacant areas, in the Village to become a breeding
site for rodents or to become infested with rodents in such a
way as to endanger health or permit the spread of such rodents
to other premises or vacant areas.
SECTION 23. Structures. Any structure, building, place
or vacant area in such condition as to be dangerous to the public
health in any way is hereby declared to be a nuisance. It shall
be unlawful for the owner or occupant thereof or any person to
permit any such structure, building, place or vacant area under
his or its ownership or control to exist or remain in such condition.
SECTION 24. Acts. It shall be unlawful for any person to
commit or do any act which endangers the public health.
SECTION 25.
Wherever in this ordinance any act is prohibited
or made or declared unlawful or an offense, or whenever the doing
of any act is required or the failure to do any act is.declared to
be unlawful, the violation of any such provision shall be punished
by a fine of not less than $10.00 or more than $500.00. Each day
such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 26.
Whenever in this ordinance the designation
"Person" occurs, the same shall include the plural and shall
further include firms and corporations.
- 7 -
R
SECTION 27. Should any provision of this ordinance be
invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, the same shall
not affect, impair or render invalid or unenforceable the re-
mainder of this ordinance.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its passage, approval and publication according to
law.
Passed this 12th day of January, 1970.
AYES: 5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT: 1
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
7
' Presi '�nt.
Clerk.
Published this day of
"``w 1970.
11
I
CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION
PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS, INC.
A Corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the
State of Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY That it is the publisher
,.s Wheeling Herald
That said -__ Wheeling Herald ;s a secular
newspaper and has been published daily in the Village
Whe e tin
County of Cook
and State of Illinois, continuously for more than one year prior to, on and since
the date of the first publication of the notice hereinafter referred to and is of gen-
eral circulation throughout said Village, County and State.
I further certify that Wheeling H e r ra l d
is a newspaper as defined in "an Act to revise the law in relation to notices" as
amended by Act approved July 17, 1959 —Ill. Revised Statutes, Chap. 100,
Para. 1 and 5.
That a notice of which the annexed printed slip is a true copy, was published in
said v.1theeling Herald on the
215 day of Janu4_ =_ , A.D. 192D
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, the said PADDOCK PUBLICA-
TIONS, Inc., has caused this certificate to be signed and its corporate seal affix-
ed hereto, by FRANCIS E. STITES, its Secretary, at Arlington Heights, Illinois,
this 21St —day of J zam u a r - -- - A.D. 19 7 0
PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS, INC.
By, �i�L7 Secretary.