[Adopted 8-5-1997 by Ord. No. 97-1461 as
Secs. 12.02 through 12.10 of the 1997 Code]
If the appointed Health Officer is not a regularly
licensed physician in Wisconsin, the Mayor shall appoint a physician
licensed to practice in Wisconsin to provide such services as may
be required by the Health Officer and Board of Health of the City
from time to time. The physician shall be provided reasonable compensation
for the services he or she provides to the City.
The Health Officer, under the direction of the
District State Health Officer, shall:
A.
Make an annual sanitary survey and maintain a continuous
sanitary supervision over his or her territory. The report of survey
is to be submitted to the Board of Health at its regular meeting in
June of each year and a copy of the same submitted with a departmental
report to the Council.
B.
Make a sanitary inspection periodically of all school
buildings and places of public assemblage and report thereon to those
responsible for the maintenance thereof.
C.
Promote the dissemination of information pertaining
to the causes, nature and prevention of prevalent diseases and the
preservation and improvement of health.
D.
Take steps necessary to secure prompt and full reports
by physicians of communicable diseases and prompt and full registration
of births and deaths.
E.
Enforce the health laws, rules and regulations of
the State Department of Health and Family Services.
F.
Keep and deliver to his or her successor a record
of all his or her official acts.
G.
Attend one monthly meeting of the Board of Health,
at which time he or she shall submit a report to be included in Health
Department report to Council.
A.
By Health Officer. The Health Officer shall enforce
the health laws of the State, particularly Ch. 251, Wis. Stats., the
rules and regulations of the State Department of Health and Social
Services, the ordinances of the City and the rules and regulations
of the Board of Health.
[Amended 12-15-1998 by Ord. No. 98-1526]
B.
Assistance from officers. The police and all deputies
and other civil officers and all citizens shall aid, to the utmost
of their power, the Health Officer in the discharge of his or her
duties, and on his or her requisition the Chief of Police shall serve
or detail one or more persons to serve the notices issued by the Health
Officer and to perform such other duties as he or she may require.
A.
Reports to the State Department of Health and Family
Services. The Health Officer and the Clerk of the Board shall at least
once a year report to the State Department their transactions and
such other facts as shall be required according to instructions furnished
and shall also make special reports when required.
B.
Reports to City Board of Health. The Health Officer
shall make an annual report in June to the Board of Health as to the
state of health of the City. He or she shall also, from time to time,
make such other reports and recommend such sanitary measures to the
Board of Health as he or she deems necessary.
C.
Reports of unusual danger to public health. Whenever,
in the judgment of the Health Officer, danger to public health shall
arise requiring special regulation not of general application, he
or she shall forthwith notify the Chairperson of the Board to take
such action as may be necessary and proper.
The Health Officer may enter upon or within
any premises where conditions dangerous to the public health are known
or believed to exist and examine into the nature of the complaints
made by any of the inhabitants concerning sources of danger or injury
to health; and he or she shall preserve accurate records of his or
her official actions and report the same to the Board of Health at
its next meeting.
The Health Officer shall cause the removal of
all objects or noxious substances detrimental to health in the City.
[Amended 12-15-1998 by Ord. No. 98-1526; 8-10-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-1806]
A.
Communicable diseases; general. The City Health Officer
shall perform all duties prescribed to him or her by the State of
Wisconsin and the State Department of Health and Family Services regarding
contagious diseases, particularly, but not limited to Ch. 252, Wis.
Stats., and Ch. HFS 145, Wis. Adm. Code, and "local health officer"
as used within the Wisconsin Statutes and Wisconsin Administrative
Code shall mean the City Health Officer, all such statutes and code
provisions pertaining to contagious diseases being specifically incorporated
herein by reference, as amended from time to time, and as such constituting
local direction and authority for the City Health Officer, Health
Department and Board of Health.
B.
Control, isolation and quarantine measures for communicable
diseases other than tuberculosis. The City Health Officer shall undertake
such measures for the control of communicable diseases, other than
tuberculosis, but also including those diseases as are specifically
set forth in Appendix A to Ch. HFS 145, Wis. Adm Code, as set forth
under § 252.06, Wis. Stats., and § 145.06, Wis.
Adm. Code, specifically, but not limited to measures to direct a person
known to have or suspected of having a contagious disease to participate
in such programs, tests, evaluations, conduct cessation, isolated
or segregated residence, placement and the like as set forth under
§ 145.06(4), Wis. Adm. Code, and in the absence of compliance
with such directive, to petition a court of record to order compliance
with such directive as set forth under § 145.06(5), Wis.
Adm. Code.
C.
Control, isolation and quarantine measures for tuberculosis.
The City Health Officer shall undertake such measures for the control
of tuberculosis, as set forth under § 252.07, Wis. Stats.,
and § 145.10, Wis. Adm. Code, specifically, but not limited
to measures to order the confinement to a facility of an individual
having or suspected of having tuberculosis, upon those conditions
set forth under § 252.07(8)(a), Wis. Stats., and § 145.10(6)(d),(e)
and (f), Wis. Adm. Code, and to petition the court for an extension
of such confinement as necessary and pursuant to those conditions
set forth under § 252.07(9)(a), Wis. Stats., and § 145.10(7),
Wis. Adm. Code.
D.
Communicable diseases information to the public and
to schools. The City Health Officer may advise the public and any
individual persons of the provisions of this section and the Wisconsin
Statutes and the Wisconsin Administrative Code provisions referenced
and incorporated herein in order to assist the Health Officer in the
performance of duties pertaining to the protection against contagious
diseases, including, but not limited to the provisions of § 252.19,
Wis. Stats., providing that no person who is knowingly infected with
a communicable disease may willfully violate the recommendations of
the local Health Officer or subject others to danger of contracting
the disease, and that no person may knowingly and willfully take,
aid in taking advise or cause to be taken a person who is infected
or is suspected of being infected with a communicable disease into
any public place or conveyance where the infected person would expose
any other person to danger of contracting the disease. The City Health
officer may further specifically advise schools, teachers, school
nurses and principals of the provisions of § 252.21, Wis.
Stats., providing in part at Subsection (1), that a local health officer
should be notified of the existence or suspicion of the existence
of the presence of a communicable disease in a school, and the provisions
of Subsection (6) thereof, providing in part that any teacher, school
nurse or principal may send home pupils who are suspected of having
a communicable disease or any other disease the State Department of
Health and Family Services specifies by rule.
E.
Violations. Any person who willfully violates or obstructs the execution of any term or provision of this section and any state statute, code or rule, county, City ordinance or departmental order under this section, Ch. 252, Wis. Stats., and/or Ch. HFS 145, Wis. Adm. Code, relating to the public health, for which no other penalty prescribed, shall, in addition to being subject to all other legal and equitable actions and relief available to the City of Franklin, be subject to the penalty provisions set forth under § 1-19 of the City of Franklin Municipal Code.
The Health Officer shall perform such additional
duties prescribed to him or her by the Board of Health.
A.
Health Services Administrator. The Health Services
Administrator shall also be the Health Officer for the purpose of
communicable disease control and shall have the qualifications set
forth in § HSS 139-06, Wis. Adm. Code, as amended from time
to time. The Administrator/Health Officer shall carry out the programs
and policies set forth by the Wisconsin Department of Health, the
City Board of Health and City Council and shall supervise the activities
of the public health nurses, the clinic staff nurses and clerical
employees of the City Health Department. Such person shall be the
department head of the Health Department. The qualifications and duties
for this position are set forth in Resolution 83-2058 and § HSS
139.06., Wis. Adm. Code.
B.
Public Health Nurse. The Public Health Nurse shall
be certified to practice or eligible to receive certification as a
registered nurse (R.N.) in the state and shall have the qualifications
set forth in § HSS 139.08, Wis. Adm. Code. The Public Health
Nurse shall participate in the planning and implementation of community
health programs and will work under the supervision of the Health
Services Administrator/Health Officer for communicable disease to
perform public health nursing activities which may include instruction
and guidance of teachers, parents, children and the general public
in matters related to the promotion and maintenance of individual
and community health, and other related duties.
C.
Clinic Staff Nurse. The Clinic Staff Nurse shall participate
in the clinics and the implementation of community health programs
under the supervision of the Health Services Administrator/Health
Officer for communicable disease to perform nursing activities which
may include immunizations, screening procedures, instruction and counseling
to promote and maintain individual and community health, and other
related duties.
