3707.17 QUARANTINE IN PLACE OTHER THAN THAT OF LEGAL
SETTLEMENT
When a person with a contagious disease, quarantined in a county by a
city or general health district, has a legal settlement in a municipal
corporation or township within the same county but other than that in
which quarantined, or has a legal settlement in another county of the
state, and such person is unable to pay the expenses of the service
provided under section 3707.14 of the Revised Code, the city or general
health district rendering such service shall notify in writing the
proper officials of the municipal corporation or township of legal
settlement or the board of county commissioners of the county of legal
settlement if such legal settlement is in another county that such
services are being rendered. Such notice shall be sent within three days
if the fact of nonresidence is disclosed upon the beginning of such
service or admission to a hospital or other institution of quarantine,
or within three days after the discovery of such fact if it is not so
disclosed. Within twenty days after the discharge of such quarantined
person, the health commissioner of the city or general health district
shall send a notice of such discharge and a sworn statement of the
expenses, either actual or at the established rate of the hospital or
other institution of quarantine, to the proper officials of the
municipal corporation or township of legal settlement or the board of
county commissioners of the county of legal settlement if such legal
settlement is in another county. Thereupon the municipal corporation or
township of legal settlement or county of legal settlement if such legal
settlement is in another county shall be liable to the city or general
health district rendering such service, and shall pay for it within
thirty days after date of the sworn statement of expenses. If the notice
of the rendering of such service, required to be sent by the health
commissioner, is not sent within three days after the disclosure by the
person quarantined or the discovery of such nonresidence, the municipal
corporation or township of legal settlement or the county of legal
settlement if such legal settlement is in another county shall be liable
only after the receipt of such notice.
This section does not prevent the removal of such quarantined person
by the municipal corporation, township, or county of legal settlement,
at its expense, but such removal shall not relieve the municipal
corporation, township, or county of legal settlement for the expenses
previously incurred by the city or general health district in which such
person has been quarantined. Any such person who does not, upon
discharge, pay the expenses of such quarantine shall be deemed indigent
insofar as the city or general health district is concerned. The
municipal corporation, township, or county of legal settlement is hereby
subrogated to all the rights of the city or general health district in
which such service was rendered.
