{"id":"DUT-AR-007","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Arkansas","state":"AR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Arkansas State Board of Health / Arkansas Department of Health","authority":"Act 96 of 1913, as amended, Ark. Code Ann. 20-7-101 et seq. (recited in the rule)","instrument":"Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Reportable Diseases (effective January 1, 2019)","title":"Arkansas State Board of Health Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Reportable Diseases, effective January 1, 2019 (as reproduced, with the 2022 amendments marked, in the Department\u0027s rule filed for legislative review in 2022)","dateIssued":"2019-01-01","effective":"2019-01-01","end":"standing through the quarters (superseded 2023-09-11)","startDate":"2019-01-01","endDate":"2023-09-11","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","TRAV"],"addressees":["persons generally; physicians and health-care providers; local governments; owners or persons in control of premises (through quarantine and isolation)"],"clause":"The Director shall impose such quarantine restrictions and regulations upon commerce and travel by railway, common carriers, or any other means, and upon all individuals as in his judgment may be necessary to prevent the introduction of communicable disease into the State, or from one place to another within the State.... C. No person shall interfere with any health authority having jurisdiction","enforcement":"Violation of the rules is a misdemeanor and a civil-penalty violation under 20-7-101","functions":[],"notes":"Directs the Director (Secretary) of Health, on knowledge of a suspected case or outbreak, to \u0027take whatever steps necessary for the investigation and control of the disease\u0027 (sec. VII), to impose quarantine restrictions and regulations upon commerce, travel and all individuals (sec. X.A), bars local quarantine regulations of commerce or travel except by the Director\u0027s authority (sec. X.B), forbids any person to interfere with a health authority (sec. X.C), and imposes on attending physicians the duty to isolate (sec. IX); these are the rules whose violation 20-7-101 punishes and the source of the \u0027sole authority\u0027 recital in every 2020-2021 directive.","sourceUrl":"https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=/Assembly/Meeting+Attachments/040/26115/D.4.a+Rules+Pertaining+to+Reportable+Diseases.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":333033,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-AR","url":"/library/DUT-AR-007","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-AR-007","citation":"Arkansas State Board of Health / Arkansas Department of Health, Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Reportable Diseases (effective January 1, 2019) (standing) (Ex. DUT-AR-007)","stateName":"Arkansas","related":[]}