Funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the department for distribution to or division among counties or public health services districts for local health work may be allocated or reallocated in a manner designed to assure the accomplishment of recognized local public health activities and delegated functions, powers and duties in accordance with applicable standards of performance. Whenever in the director's opinion there is cause, the director may terminate all or a part of any such delegation and may reallocate all or a part of any funds that may have been conditioned upon the further performance of the functions, powers or duties conferred. The compensation of all personnel shall be as determined pursuant to section 38-611. The director may make and amend rules necessary for the proper administration and enforcement of the laws relating to the public health. G. Notwithstanding subsection H, paragraph 1 of this section, the director may define and prescribe emergency measures for detecting, reporting, preventing and controlling new communicable or infectious diseases or conditions if he has reasonable cause to believe that a serious threat to public health and welfare exists and that the communicable disease advisory council established in section 36-136.03 has reviewed and approved the emergency measure.
Emergency measures are effective for no longer than eighteen months.
Define and prescribe reasonably necessary measures for detecting, reporting, preventing and controlling communicable and preventable diseases. The rules shall declare certain diseases reportable and shall further establish minimum periods of isolation or quarantine and procedures and measures to institute isolation or quarantine, including the right to a hearing. The rules shall allow the director to institute isolation or quarantine before the completion of a hearing if he determines that clear and convincing evidence exists that a person poses a substantial danger to another person or the community. The rules shall prescribe measures reasonably required to prevent the occurrence of, or to seek early detection and alleviation of, disability, insofar as possible, from communicable or preventable diseases. The rules shall include reasonably necessary measures to control animal diseases transmittable to man.