§325-8 Infected persons, removal and quarantine. When any person is infected or suspected of being infected with any infectious, communicable, or other disease dangerous to the public health, the department of health or its agent, may, for the safety of the public, remove the sick or infected person to a separate house or hospital, and provide the person with medical care and other necessaries, which shall be at the expense of the person's self, the person's parents or guardian, if able to meet the expense, otherwise at the expense of the county in which the person is ill or infected. The county council shall pay the expenses upon certification by the department or its agents that a person has been so removed and that expense has been incurred under this section. [PC 1869, c 59, §26; am L 1911, c 125, §4; RL 1925, §935; RL 1935, §1095; am L 1941, c 262, §1; RL 1945, §2307; RL 1955, §49-8; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §325-8; gen ch 1985]