{"id":"DUT-LA-005","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Louisiana","state":"LA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health (state health officer), by rule; codified by the Division of Administration, Office of the State Register","authority":"La. R.S. 40:4 and 40:5 (recited in the Part\u0027s authority notes)","instrument":"Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 51 (Public Health - Sanitary Code), Part II (The Control of Diseases), section 117 (Disease Control Measures Including Isolation/Quarantine); with Part I, section 115 (Emergency Situations) and section 117 (Employee Health)","title":"Sanitary Code disease-control rule: the state health officer\u0027s duty to institute control measures whenever a case of communicable disease occurs, to declare any house, building or place where a case occurs a place of quarantine, and to quarantine localities by rules having \u0027the same force and authority as this code\u0027; it is \u0027a violation of this code for any person to enter or leave any quarantined area\u0027; no person known to be a case or carrier of a communicable disease shall be employed as a food handler or permitted to work in the listed establishments","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","CLOSE","EMP","TRAV"],"addressees":["persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises (houses, buildings and places declared places of quarantine); employers in food, lodging, school, child-care and the other establishments listed in Part I, sec. 117"],"clause":"The state health officer or his or her duly authorized representative is hereby empowered and it is made his or her duty, whenever a case of communicable disease occurs in any household or place,... to declare the house, building, apartment, room, or place where the case occurs, a place of quarantine","enforcement":"R.S. 40:6 (Ex. DUT-LA-003): criminal penalties (up to two years for isolation or quarantine violations), injunction, civil fines; administrative enforcement, suspension and revocation under LAC 51:I.105 to 51:I.113","functions":[],"notes":"Persons suspected of being cases, carriers or contacts \u0027shall either submit to examination... or be placed in isolation or under quarantine\u0027 (A); the state health officer must institute control measures whenever a case occurs (B) and may declare any place where a case occurs a place of quarantine that only authorized persons may enter or leave (C); locality quarantines are imposed by rules with the force of the Code (D); entering or leaving a quarantined area is a violation (E); interfering with placards is prohibited (F); the state health officer may take complete charge of any case and carry on such measures to prevent its spread as he believes necessary (G); the state health officer may issue emergency orders under R.S. 40:4 (Part I, sec. 115); no person known to be a case or carrier of a communicable disease shall be employed as a food handler or permitted to work in food, lodging, school, day-care and the other listed establishments (Part I, sec. 117).","sourceUrl":"https://www.doa.la.gov/media/dtxju50z/51.docx","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":7497780,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-LA","url":"/library/DUT-LA-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-LA-005","citation":"Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health (state health officer), by rule; codified by the Division of Administration, Office of the State Register, Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 51 (Public Health - Sanitary Code), Part II (The Control of Diseases), section 117 (Disease Control Measures Including Isolation/Quarantine); with Part I, section 115 (Emergency Situations) and section 117 (Employee Health) (standing) (Ex. DUT-LA-005)","stateName":"Louisiana","related":["DUT-LA-003","DUT-LA-002","DUT-LA-004"]}