(a) Obtaining information — Personal history of illness, medical examination, and specimen analysis. The regulatory authority shall act when it has reasonable cause to believe that a food employee or conditional employee has possibly transmitted disease, may be infected with a disease in a communicable form that is transmissible through food, may be a carrier of infectious agents that cause a disease that is transmissible through food, or is affected with a boil, an infected wound, or acute respiratory infection, by:

1. (1) Securing a confidential medical history of the food employee or conditional employee suspected of transmitting disease or making other investigations as deemed appropriate; and
2. (2) Requiring appropriate medical examinations, including collection of specimens for laboratory analysis, of a suspected food employee or conditional employee.

(b) Restriction or exclusion of food employee, or summary suspension of permit. Based on the findings of an investigation related to a food employee or conditional employee who is suspected of being infected or diseased, the regulatory authority may issue an order to the suspected food employee, conditional employee, or permit holder instituting one (1) or more of the following control measures:

1. (1) Restricting the food employee or conditional employee;
2. (2) Excluding the food employee or conditional employee; and
3. (3) Closing the retail food establishment by summarily suspending a permit to operate in accordance with this subchapter.

(c) Restriction or exclusion order — Warning or hearing not required — Information required in order. Based on the findings of the investigation as specified in subsection (a) of this section and to control disease transmission, the regulatory authority may issue an order of restriction or exclusion to a suspected food employee or the permit holder without prior warning, notice of a hearing, or a hearing if the order:

1. (1) States the reasons for the restriction or exclusion that is ordered;
2. (2) States the evidence that the food employee or permit holder shall provide in order to demonstrate that the reasons for the restriction or exclusion are eliminated;
3. (3) States that the suspected food employee or the permit holder may request an appeal hearing by submitting a timely request as provided in this subchapter; and
4. (4) Provides the name and address of the regulatory authority representative to whom a request for an appeal hearing may be made.