(55 ILCS 5/5-20001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-20001)
Sec. 5-20001.
Powers and duties of board of health.
The board
of county commissioners in counties not under township
organization, and the supervisor, assessor and town clerk of every town in
counties under township organization, shall constitute a board of health,
and on the breaking out of any dangerously communicable diseases in their
county or town, or in the immediate vicinity thereof, it may make and
enforce such rules and regulations tending to check the spread of the
disease within the limits of the county or town as may be necessary; and
for this purpose the board may quarantine any house or houses or place where
any infected person may be, and cause notices of warning to be put thereon,
and require the disinfection of the house or place: Provided, that nothing
in this Division shall apply to any territory lying within the corporate
limits of any city or village: Provided, further, that in case the board of
health in any county not under township organization, or of any township in
counties under township organization fails, refuses or neglects to promptly
take the necessary measures to preserve the public health, or in case any
such board of health refuses or neglects to carry out the rules and
regulations of the Department of Public Health, that thereupon the
Department of Public Health may discharge such duties and collect from the
county or township, as the case may be, the reasonable costs, charges and
expenses incurred thereby.
No board of health constituted under this Division shall
function in any county during the period that Division 5-25 is in force
in that county.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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