Ohio § 3707.31

Full text of Ohio Ohio Revised Code § 3707.31, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 3707.31.

A municipal corporation may establish a quarantine hospital within or without its

limits.  If without its limits, the consent of the municipal corporation or township within

which it is proposed to establish such hospital shall first be obtained, but such

consent shall not be necessary if the hospital is more than eight hundred feet from

any occupied house or public highway.  When great emergency exists, the board of health of a city or general health district

may seize, occupy, and temporarily use for a quarantine hospital a suitable vacant

house or building within its jurisdiction.  The board of a district within which is located a municipal corporation having a

quarantine hospital shall have exclusive control of such hospital.

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