{"id":"DUT-MI-001","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Michigan","state":"MI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Michigan Legislature (Public Health Code, 1978 PA 368, Part 22, State Department of Public Health)","authority":"Const. 1963, art. 4, sec. 51 (public health and general welfare); Public Health Code, MCL 333.2221 (department shall \u0027continually and diligently endeavor to prevent disease\u0027)","instrument":"MCL 333.2253(1), Epidemic; emergency order and procedures","title":"Public Health Code sec. 2253: epidemic emergency orders of the director of the Department of Health and Human Services","dateIssued":"1978-09-30","effective":"1978-09-30","end":"standing","startDate":"1978-09-30","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","GATH","EMER"],"addressees":["persons generally; businesses, venues and other operations as the subjects of the orders issued under it"],"clause":"if the director determines that control of an epidemic is necessary to protect the public health, the director by emergency order... may within that emergency order prohibit the gathering of people for any purpose and establish procedures to be followed during the epidemic to ensure continuation of essential public health services and enforcement of health laws.","enforcement":"MCL 333.2261 (misdemeanor: imprisonment up to 6 months, fine up to $200) and MCL 333.2262 (civil fine up to $1,000 for each violation or day), both recited in the orders (Exs. MI-050 sec. 6(e); MI-060 sec. 8(e), (h))","functions":[],"notes":"Empowered the MDHHS director, on determining that control of an epidemic is necessary to protect the public health, to prohibit gatherings for any purpose and to establish binding procedures for the epidemic; it is the recited source of every MDHHS epidemic order from October 5, 2020 to June 22, 2021 and of the residential-care, testing and prison orders that continued through 2021 Q3. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-333-2253","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20240421005139/https://legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=MCL-333-2253","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":119988,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-MI","url":"/library/DUT-MI-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MI-001","citation":"Michigan Legislature (Public Health Code, 1978 PA 368, Part 22, State Department of Public Health), MCL 333.2253(1), Epidemic; emergency order and procedures (standing) (Ex. DUT-MI-001)","stateName":"Michigan","related":["DUT-MI-019","MI-076","MI-050","MI-060"]}