All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to aid, establish, set up, and regulate hospitals, poorhouses, workhouses, houses of correction, and pesthouses anywhere in the county in which the city or town is situated and cause persons afflicted with contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases to be removed to such hospitals or pesthouses as may be provided for the purpose and to cause persons who have been exposed to such diseases, or any of them, to be removed to some suitable place of detention and detained for a reasonable length of time.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.
Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.
Article 5 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine.
Section 11-47-130 - Maintenance of Health and Cleanliness Generally.
Section 11-47-131 - Powers as to Health, Sanitation and Quarantine Generally.
Section 11-47-132 - Provision for System of Compulsory Vaccination, Etc.
Section 11-47-137 - Regulation, etc., of Markets and Marketing of Food Products, Etc.
Section 11-47-139 - Inspection of Dairies, Meats, etc., for Other Municipalities.