{"id":"DUT-MD-014","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Maryland","state":"MD","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Secretary of Health (Code of Maryland Regulations, Title 10, Subtitle 06, Chapter 01, Communicable Diseases and Related Conditions of Public Health Importance)","authority":"Health-General Article, §§ 2-104(b), 18-102, 18-103, 18-105, 18-201, 18-201.1, 18-202, 18-205 and others (Authority line of the chapter, in the exhibit)","instrument":"Regulation","title":"COMAR 10.06.01.06, General Control Measures: duty of the Secretary and health officers to take any necessary action; duty of individuals, businesses and facilities to make records available; mandatory cessation orders against businesses and facilities that threaten public health; control of food handlers; schools and child care","dateIssued":"2004-09-01","effective":"in force throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3","end":"standing","startDate":"2004-09-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","CLOSE","EMP","SCH"],"addressees":["the Secretary and health officers (duty to act and to order cessation); individuals, businesses, facilities and agencies (records and cooperation); food handlers; principals and persons in charge of schools and child care facilities"],"clause":"A. Necessary Action. The Secretary or health officer shall: (1) Take any action or measure necessary to prevent the spread of communicable disease...;... C. A health officer or the Secretary shall order cessation of operation of a business or facility determined or suspected to be a threat to public health until the public health threat is determined by the health officer to have ceased.","enforcement":"Cessation of operation by order (C); food handlers excluded from handling food (E); in a catastrophic health emergency, Health-Gen. § 18-907 and Pub. Safety § 14-3A-08 (Exs. DUT-MD-004, DUT-MD-008); the county health officer orders carried the Governor\u0027s misdemeanor (Ex. MD-039 para. IV.b)","functions":[],"notes":"Commanded the Secretary and every county health officer to take any measure necessary against a communicable disease and to order any business or facility \u0027determined or suspected to be a threat to public health\u0027 to cease operating; bound every \u0027individual, a business, a facility, or an agency\u0027 to open its records to the epidemiologic investigation; the standing regulatory footing of the county \u0027Unsafe Facility\u0027 orders authorized by Order 20-04-05-02 (Ex. MD-039).","sourceUrl":"https://dsd.maryland.gov/regulations/Pages/10.06.01.06.aspx","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":10782225,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-MD","url":"/library/DUT-MD-014","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MD-014","citation":"Secretary of Health (Code of Maryland Regulations, Title 10, Subtitle 06, Chapter 01, Communicable Diseases and Related Conditions of Public Health Importance), Regulation (standing) (Ex. DUT-MD-014)","stateName":"Maryland","related":["MD-039","DUT-MD-004","DUT-MD-008","DUT-MD-001"]}