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Sec. 17-21. Notification of disease.

No person with any disease in a communicable form, or
who is a carrier of such disease, shall work at any dairy farm
or milk plant in any capacity which brings him into contact
with the production, handling, storage or transportation of
milk, milk products, containers or equipment and no dairy
farm or milk plant shall employ in any such capacity any
such person or any person suspected of having any disease
in a communicable form or of being a carrier of such disease.
Any producer or distributor of milk or milk products upon
whose dairy farm, or in whose milk plant, any communicable
disease occurs, or who suspects that any employee has contracted
any disease in a communicable form or has become a
carrier of such disease, shall notify the joint health board immediately.
A placard containing these requirements shall be
posted at dairy farms and milk plants. (Code 1959, § 17-2.)