{"id":"DUT-LA-001","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Louisiana","state":"LA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Louisiana Legislature (codified in the Louisiana Revised Statutes)","authority":"La. Const. art. III; police power of the State; Acts 1976, No. 346, sec. 1, as amended","instrument":"La. R.S. 40:4 (Sanitary Code)","title":"Sanitary Code: the state health officer shall prepare, promulgate and enforce the Sanitary Code, which shall provide for and require control measures \u0027to expressly include isolation and quarantine\u0027 for all communicable diseases of public health significance, and the state health officer is \u0027expressly empowered and authorized to issue emergency rules and orders\u0027 to control communicable diseases and any other danger to the public health","dateIssued":"2025-01-01","effective":"standing throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3","end":"standing","startDate":"2025-01-01","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","CLOSE","EMER"],"addressees":["persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises; food establishments; public and private buildings where people congregate; the state health officer (as the mandated enforcer)"],"clause":"the rules and regulations of the Sanitary Code shall provide for an immunization program and provide for and require the reporting,... investigation, and application and implementation of appropriate control measures to expressly include isolation and quarantine proceedings and measures, for all communicable diseases of public health significance.","enforcement":"Violations of the Sanitary Code are punished under R.S. 40:6 (Ex. DUT-LA-003): criminal fines and imprisonment (up to two years for isolation or quarantine violations), injunction on the district attorney\u0027s petition, civil fines up to $100 per day per violation and $10,000 per violator per year, and suspension or revocation of permits under R.S. 40:4(B)(3)","functions":[],"notes":"The state health officer must promulgate and enforce a Sanitary Code that requires isolation, quarantine and other control measures for every communicable disease of public health significance, must regulate \u0027public and private buildings... and similar buildings where people congregate\u0027 (A)(10), and holds express power \u0027to issue emergency rules and orders when necessary and for the purposes of controlling nuisances dangerous to the public health and communicable, contagious, and infectious diseases, and any other danger to the public life, health, and safety\u0027 (A)(13).","sourceUrl":"https://legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=98420","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":293037,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-LA","url":"/library/DUT-LA-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-LA-001","citation":"Louisiana Legislature (codified in the Louisiana Revised Statutes), La. R.S. 40:4 (Sanitary Code) (standing) (Ex. DUT-LA-001)","stateName":"Louisiana","related":["LA-012","LA-023","LA-029","LA-036","DUT-LA-003"]}