The board shall prescribe sanitary rules as it deems necessary, with reference to the precautions necessary to be employed to prevent the creating and spreading of infectious and contagious diseases.

[L 1947, c 192, §18; RL 1955, §63-18; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §452-18; am L 2020, c 64, §1]