Department may promulgate and enforce rules and regulations for public health

(A) The Department of Public Health may make, adopt, promulgate, and enforce reasonable rules and regulations from time to time requiring and providing for: (1) the thorough sanitation and disinfection of all passenger cars, sleeping cars, steamboats, and other vehicles of transportation in this State and all hotels, schools, and other places used by or open to the public; (2) the sanitation and regulation of food services provided for patients and facility residents at healthcare facilities or other facilities regulated by the Department of Public Health pursuant to the State Health Facility Licensure Act; (3) the control of disease-bearing insects, including the impounding of waters; (4) the care, segregation, and isolation of persons having or suspected of having any communicable, contagious, or infectious disease; and (5) the thorough investigation and study of the causes of all diseases, epidemic and otherwise, in this State, the means for the prevention of contagious disease and the publication and distribution of such information as may contribute to the preservation of the public health and the prevention of disease. (B) The department may make separate orders and rules to meet any emergency not provided for by general rules and regulations, for the purpose of suppressing nuisances dangerous to the public health and communicable, contagious, and infectious diseases and other danger to the public life and health.