District of Columbia Code
Title 7 - Human Health Care and Safety
Chapter 1 - Public Health

Subchapter I - Commissioner of Public Health

§ 7–101. Appointment; duties generally - The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall appoint a...

§ 7–102. Enforcement of vital statistics regulations. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Oct. 8, 1981, D.C. Law 4-34, § 30(a), 28...

§ 7–103. Sanitary Inspectors — Appointment; qualifications; subordinates - There may be appointed by the Mayor of the District...

§ 7–104. Sanitary Inspectors — Reports - Said Inspectors shall be respectively required to make, at least...

§ 7–105. Report by Director - Said Director of the Department of Human Services shall report...

§ 7–106. Clerks to Director - The Mayor of the District of Columbia may appoint, on...

Subchapter I-A - Mayor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health, and Nutrition

§ 7–121. Mayor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health, and Nutrition - (a) There is established a Mayor’s Council on Physical Fitness,...

§ 7–122. Powers and duties - (a) The Mayor’s Council shall: (1) Advise the Mayor on...

§ 7–123. Administrative support - The Department of Health shall assist with the administrative functions...

§ 7–124. Fitness report - The Department of Health shall provide data relating to physical...

§ 7–125. Fitness Fund - (a) There is established as a nonlapsing fund the Fitness...

§ 7–126. Executive committee - There is established an executive committee, which shall: (1) Be...

Subchapter II - Prevention of Spread of Communicable Diseases

§ 7–131. Regulations to prevent spread of communicable diseases - (a) The Mayor may, upon the advice of the Director...

§ 7–132. Definitions - For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Affected...

§ 7–133. Persons believed to be carriers of communicable diseases — Order for removal - (a) Whenever the Mayor, after consultation with the Director of...

§ 7–134. Persons believed to be carriers of communicable diseases — Detention; expiration of order; continuation; hearing on detention; minors - (a) A copy of the order provided for in §...

§ 7–135. Persons believed to be carriers of communicable diseases — Examination; diagnosis; detention for quarantine; discharge; public hearing - (a) The Mayor shall cause to be conducted, by medical...

§ 7–136. Persons believed to be carriers of communicable diseases — Leaving detention without discharge - It shall be unlawful for a person detained in a...

§ 7–137. Persons believed to be carriers of communicable diseases — Arrest - (a) In aid of the powers vested in the Mayor...

§ 7–138. Access to building for inspection - The Mayor may, without fee or hindrance, enter, examine, and...

§ 7–139. Interference unlawful - It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to obstruct,...

§ 7–140. Violation of § 7-136, § 7-138, or § 7-139, or rules or regulations promulgated thereunder - Any person who willfully violates § 7-136, 7-138, or 7-139...

§ 7–141. Exemption for persons relying on spiritual means to cure disease - With respect to all persons who, either on behalf of...

§ 7–142. “Director of the Department of Human Services” defined. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 601, § 12; Aug. 8,...

§ 7–143. Immediate treatment of minor with venereal disease. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Feb. 21, 1986, D.C. Law 6-83, § 7(a), 32...

§ 7–144. Construction - Each and every provision of this subchapter shall be constructed...

Subchapter III - Department of Public Health

§ 7–151. Establishment of the Department of Public Health - There is established in the Executive Branch of the Government...

§ 7–152. Organization of the Department of Public Health - (a) Pursuant to subchapter VI of Chapter 3 of Title...

§ 7–153. Appointment of Director - The Department of Public Health shall be under the supervision...

§ 7–154. Establishment of Public Health Coordination Advisory Committee - (a) There is established a Public Health Coordination Advisory Committee...

Subchapter III-A - Adverse Event Reporting

§ 7–161. Mandatory adverse event reporting - (a) For the purposes of this section, the term: (1)...

Subchapter IV - General Provisions

§ 7–171. Chief Clerk and Chief Inspector not to act as deputy - After April 2, 1938, neither the Chief Clerk nor the...

§ 7–172. Assistant Director of Public Health to be physician and discharge duties of health officer during his absence or disability - The Assistant Director of Public Health shall be a physician,...

§ 7–173. Inspector of Fish and Other Marine Products - The duties and the authority conferred by law upon the...

§ 7–174. Certain ordinances of Board of Health legalized — Generally; exceptions - The ordinances of the late Board of Health of the...

§ 7–175. Certain ordinances of Board of Health legalized — Titles - The ordinances, rules, and regulations of said late Board of...

§ 7–176. Certain ordinances of Board of Health legalized — Force and effect; exemptions from enforcement; alternative sanctions; adjudication of infractions - Except as provided in § 7-175, the ordinances of the...

§ 7–177. Certain ordinances of Board of Health legalized — Alteration, amendment, or repeal - The Council of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized...

§ 7–178. Reception, burial, and identification of ashes of certain cremated indigent persons - The Director of the Department of Human Services is authorized...

§ 7–179. Dairy Inspector may act as Inspector of Livestock - Any Inspector of Dairies and Dairy Farms may act as...

§ 7–180. Tuberculosis Sanatoria and District of Columbia General Hospital - The following hospital and sanatoria, on and after July 1,...