{"id":"DUT-IL-001","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Illinois","state":"IL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Illinois General Assembly (Department of Public Health Act)","authority":"Department of Public Health Act, 20 ILCS 2305; police power of the State","instrument":"20 ILCS 2305/2 (Department of Public Health Act, Section 2, Powers)","title":"Powers of the Department of Public Health: supreme authority in quarantine and isolation; orders closing places; duty of all State and local officers to enforce","dateIssued":"2026-09-28","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-28","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","CLOSE"],"addressees":["persons generally; owners of places (closure orders); all State and local officers (duty to enforce)"],"clause":"The Department may, however, order a person or a group of persons to be quarantined or isolated or may order a place to be closed and made off limits to the public on an immediate basis without prior consent or court order if, in the reasonable judgment of the Department, immediate action is required to protect the public from a dangerously contagious or infectious disease.","enforcement":"20 ILCS 2305/8.1 (DUT-IL-014): whoever violates or refuses to obey any rule or regulation of the Department is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor; every State\u0027s Attorney shall prosecute","functions":[],"notes":"Section 2(a) vests the Department with \u0027supreme authority in matters of quarantine and isolation,\u0027 directs it to \u0027take means to restrict and suppress\u0027 dangerously contagious diseases \u0027especially when existing in epidemic form,\u0027 and commands that \u0027all local boards of health, health authorities and officers, police officers, sheriffs and all other officers and employees of the state or any locality shall enforce the rules and regulations so adopted and orders issued by the Department\u0027; sections 2(b)-(c) authorize orders of quarantine, isolation and closure of places, on an immediate basis where required, with consent or a court petition within 48 hours. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://ilga.gov/Documents/legislation/ilcs/documents/002023050K2.htm","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":102971,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-IL","url":"/library/DUT-IL-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-IL-001","citation":"Illinois General Assembly (Department of Public Health Act), 20 ILCS 2305/2 (Department of Public Health Act, Section 2, Powers) (standing) (Ex. DUT-IL-001)","stateName":"Illinois","related":["IL-005","DUT-IL-010","DUT-IL-014"]}