Section 248(2)(a) in Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1964
(a)power by orders, which may be either of special or general application, to direct that every medical practitioner who knows or may have reason to believe that any person whom he has visited in his professional capacity in any dwelling not being a hospital, or that every manager of any factory or educational institution, or every head of a household, who knows or has reason to believe that any person who resides in any dwelling under the management or control of any such manager or head of a household, is suffering from any illness which may reasonably be supposed to be a infectious disease, shall give information of the same with the least practicable delay to such person as may be designated by the municipal council in that behalf;