252.02 Powers and duties of department.
(1)
The department may establish systems of disease surveillance and
inspection to ascertain the presence of any communicable disease. Any
agent of the department may, with a special inspection warrant issued
under s. 66.0119,
enter any building, vessel or conveyance to inspect the same and remove
therefrom any person affected by a communicable disease. For this
purpose, the agent may require the person in charge of the vessel or
conveyance, other than a railway car, to stop the same at any place and
may require the conductor of any railway train to stop the train at any
station or upon any sidetrack, for such time as may be necessary.
(2) In
an emergency, the department may provide those sick with a communicable
disease with medical aid and temporary hospital accommodation.
(3) The
department may close schools and forbid public gatherings in schools,
churches, and other places to control outbreaks and epidemics.
(4) Except as provided in ss. 93.07 (24) (e) and 97.59,
the department may promulgate and enforce rules or issue orders for
guarding against the introduction of any communicable disease into the
state, for the control and suppression of communicable diseases, for the
quarantine and disinfection of persons, localities and things infected
or suspected of being infected by a communicable disease and for the
sanitary care of jails, state prisons, mental health institutions,
schools, and public buildings and connected premises. Any rule or order
may be made applicable to the whole or any specified part of the state,
or to any vessel or other conveyance. The department may issue orders
for any city, village or county by service upon the local health
officer. Rules that are promulgated and orders that are issued under
this subsection supersede conflicting or less stringent local
regulations, orders or ordinances.
(5) If
any public officer or employee or any person in charge of any building,
vessel, conveyance, jail, state prison, mental health institution or
school fails to comply with a rule promulgated or order issued under
sub. (4),
the department may appoint an agent to execute its rules or orders.
Expenses that an agent incurs shall be paid by the unit of government
that employs the person or of which the public officer is a member. If
the building, vessel, conveyance, mental health institution or school is
privately owned the state shall pay the expenses that the agent incurs.
(6) The department may authorize and implement all emergency measures necessary to control communicable diseases.
(7) The
department shall promulgate rules that specify medical conditions
treatable by prescriptions or nonprescription drug products for which
pharmacists and pharmacies must report under s. 450.145 (1).
History: 1981 c. 291; 1993 a. 27 s. 284; Stats. 1993 s. 252.02; 1999 a. 150 s. 672; 2001 a. 109; 2005 a. 198; 2015 a. 55.
Cross-reference: See also ch. DHS 145, Wis. adm. code.
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