[Adopted 10-4-1999]
The Health Regulations of the Town of Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, adopted by the Board of Health of the Town of Chelmsford, as renumbered, revised and codified by General Code Publishers Corp., and consisting of Chapter 201, Health Regulations, of the Code of the Town of Chelmsford, are hereby approved.
The provisions of Chapter 201, insofar as they are substantively the same as those of regulations in force immediately prior to this acceptance of Chapter 201, are intended as a continuation of such regulations and not as new enactments, and the effectiveness of such provisions shall date from the date of adoption of the prior regulation. All such provisions are hereby continued in full force and effect and are hereby reaffirmed as to their adoption by the Board of Health of the Town of Chelmsford, and it is the intention of said Board of Health that each such provision contained in Chapter 201 of the Code is hereby reaffirmed as it appears in the Code.
A.Â
In compiling and preparing the Health Regulations for
renumbering and revision as part of the Code, certain grammatical and other
minor changes were made in said regulations. It is the intention of the Board
of Health that all such changes be accepted as part of the regulations as
if the regulations so changed had been previously formally adopted to read
as such.
B.Â
In addition, the following changes, amendments or revisions
are made herewith, to become effective upon the effective date of this enactment.
(Chapter and section number references are to the regulations as they have
been renumbered and appear in the Code.)
(1)Â
In § 201-7, Subsection B is amended to conform to the current wording of MGL c. 111, § 111, and the following wording is deleted: "When a householder knows that a person within his family or house is sick with a disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the board of health in the manner required by the statute, (General Laws, Chapter 111, Section 109, as amended by Chapter 265 of the Acts of 1938) provided, however, that in cases in which a physician has been called in his notification will be accepted in place of the householder's notification."
