§ 5-1.602. Venereal Disease: Quarantine and/or Examination.

(a)

The Health Officer or his duly authorized representative is hereby authorized and directed to quarantine and/or examine any person of either sex whom he has reasonable grounds to believe is afflicted with a venereal disease and is likely to expose others thereto.

(b)

Owing to the prevalence of such diseases among sex offenders, the arrest of any person of either sex for vagrancy involving a sex offense, prostitution, being a keeper, inmate, employee or frequenter of a house of ill fame, prostitution, or assignation, being a lewd or dissolute person, or adultery, lewd or lascivious conduct, or other criminal charge involving a sex offense is to be considered and is hereby declared to furnish reasonable grounds for the examination provided for in subsection (a) of this section; provided, however, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer or his duly authorized representative to examine into each such arrest and the circumstances leading thereto, in order to determine whether there exists in fact reasonable grounds to believe the arrested person to be afflicted with a venereal disease. The term "prostitution" as used in this subsection shall include the giving or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse for hire and the giving or receiving of the body for indiscriminate sexual intercourse without hire.

(c)

In furtherance of the purpose of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the Health Officer or his duly authorized representative shall have the power to quarantine and/or examine in such manner and by such methods as modern science has found to be proper, all persons taken into custody by the Police Department of the City of Modesto who are suspected by the Health Officer or his duly authorized representative of being afflicted with any venereal disease.

(d)

No person convicted of any of the charges mentioned in subsection (b) of this section shall be released until examined for such venereal disease by the Health Officer or his duly authorized representative.

(e)

In addition to the power and duties herein mentioned and the other powers and duties imposed upon him, the said Health Officer shall have the power to make and promulgate such rules and regulations as are reasonably necessary for the prevention and control of venereal disease in this City, and to effectuate the provisions of this section.

(Added by Ord. 327-C.S., effective 8-20-59)