{"id":"DUT-ND-001","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"North Dakota","state":"ND","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Legislative Assembly of North Dakota (codified statute administered by the State Department of Health, since 2022 the Department of Health and Human Services)","authority":"N.D.C.C. title 23 (Health and Safety), ch. 23-01 (State Department of Health)","instrument":"N.D.C.C. 23-01-03, 23-01-04, 23-01-05","title":"Powers and duties of the health council; effect of rules and regulations; health officer - duties, including written orders relating to disease control measures","dateIssued":"2026-09-29","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-29","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","CLOSE","GATH","EMER"],"addressees":["persons generally; local health officers; hospitals and related institutions; owners or persons in control of premises and places of business reached by a disease-control order"],"clause":"Issue a written order relating to a disease control measure necessary to prevent the spread of a communicable disease. A disease control measure may include a special immunization activity and decontamination measure.... All rules and regulations adopted by the department... under the powers granted by any provisions of this title... have the force and effect of law.","enforcement":"N.D.C.C. 23-07-21(1): infraction for violating or failing to obey any order issued by any state, district, county or municipal health officer (Ex. DUT-ND-002); 23-07.6-02(3): class B misdemeanor for failure to obey a confinement order (Ex. DUT-ND-003); the orders recited both (Ex. ND-021, ND-061, ND-066)","functions":[],"notes":"The State Health Officer holds a standing statutory power to order disease control measures, which during the claimable quarters read (as recited in State Health Officer Order 2020-08, Ex. ND-061, sec. A par. 8) \u0027issue any orders related to disease control measures deemed necessary to prevent the spread of communicable diseases\u0027; the Department\u0027s rules bind \u0027all county and municipal health officers, and... all county, municipal, and private medical hospitals and... related institutions\u0027 with \u0027the force and effect of law\u0027 (23-01-04); the health council sets \u0027standards, rules, and regulations... necessary for the maintenance of public health, including sanitation and disease control\u0027 (23-01-03(3)); since April 2021 the State Health Officer \u0027shall apply to the district court... for an injunction canceling a public event or closing a place of business\u0027 (23-01-05(6)(d)(3)). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t23c01.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":195026,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-ND","url":"/library/DUT-ND-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-ND-001","citation":"Legislative Assembly of North Dakota (codified statute administered by the State Department of Health, since 2022 the Department of Health and Human Services), N.D.C.C. 23-01-03, 23-01-04, 23-01-05 (standing) (Ex. DUT-ND-001)","stateName":"North Dakota","related":["ND-061","ND-014","ND-021","ND-022","ND-026","ND-031","ND-060","ND-066","ND-078","ND-080","DUT-ND-002","DUT-ND-003"]}