{"id":"DUT-LA-004","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; Acts 1976, No. 346, sec. 1; Acts 2018, No. 206, sec. 4","instrument":"La. R.S. 40:7 (communicable disease epidemic; procedure; quarantine of a parish or municipality)","title":"Communicable disease epidemic: the state health officer shall proclaim and order an infected parish, municipality or portion quarantined, shall set the \u0027rules, regulations, terms, and conditions on which intercourse with the infected locality will be permitted,\u0027 and those rules \u0027shall be observed and obeyed\u0027","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","TRAV"],"addressees":["persons generally; carriers of goods and property; local health authorities"],"clause":"the state health officer shall issue his proclamation declaring the facts and ordering the infected parish or municipality or the infected portion thereof quarantined.... These rules, regulations, terms, and conditions shall be observed and obeyed by all health authorities.","enforcement":"R.S. 40:6(B) (Ex. DUT-LA-003): $50 to $100 or imprisonment up to two years for violating isolation or quarantine provisions; LAC 51:II.117(E) makes entering or leaving a quarantined area a violation of the Code (Ex. DUT-LA-005)","functions":[],"notes":"When disease in any parish or municipality threatens to spread to the rest of the State, the state health officer must quarantine the locality, must set the terms on which persons, goods and property may move to and from it, and may bar entry of persons whose introduction \u0027would increase the prevalence of the disease\u0027 (B); the resulting rules are mandatory.","sourceUrl":"https://legis.la.gov/Legis/Law.aspx?d=98770","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":250669,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-LA","url":"/library/DUT-LA-004","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-LA-004","citation":"Louisiana Legislature (codified in the Louisiana Revised Statutes), La. R.S. 40:7 (communicable disease epidemic; procedure; quarantine of a parish or municipality) (standing) (Ex. DUT-LA-004)","stateName":"Louisiana","related":["DUT-LA-007","DUT-LA-008","DUT-LA-003","DUT-LA-005"]}