{"id":"DUT-GA-001","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-1204, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1; amended by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1386, section 9)","authority":"Police power of the State; Title 31 (Health), Chapter 12 (Control of Hazardous Conditions, Preventable Diseases, and Metabolic Disorders)","instrument":"O.C.G.A. section 31-12-4","title":"Isolation and segregation of diseased persons; quarantine","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["QUAR","DUTY"],"addressees":["persons generally (infected persons, carriers, and persons exposed to or suspected of infection); the Department and county boards of health as ordering authorities"],"clause":"The department and all county boards of health may, from time to time, require the isolation or segregation of persons with communicable diseases or conditions likely to endanger the health of others. The department may, in addition, require quarantine or surveillance of carriers of disease and persons exposed to, or suspected of being infected with, infectious disease...","enforcement":"Any person violating any provision of Title 31 is guilty of a misdemeanor (O.C.G.A. section 31-5-8); injunction and abatement of public nuisances (section 31-5-9) (Ex. DUT-GA-004)","functions":[],"notes":"The Department of Public Health and every county board of health may compel the isolation or segregation of infected persons, and the Department may compel the quarantine or surveillance of exposed or suspected persons until found free of the disease; the Department \u0027shall promulgate\u0027 rules implementing the section for a declared public health emergency (the rules are Ex. DUT-GA-005). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2024/T31%20(V23)%202019.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":3338916,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-GA","url":"/library/DUT-GA-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-GA-001","citation":"General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-1204, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1; amended by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1386, section 9), O.C.G.A. section 31-12-4 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-001)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["DUT-GA-005","DUT-GA-002","DUT-GA-003","DUT-GA-004"]}