{"id":"DUT-PA-001","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Pennsylvania","state":"PA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania","authority":"Police power of the Commonwealth (Pa. Const. art. III; the Act\u0027s title: \u0027relating to the prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable disease... and prescribing penalties\u0027)","instrument":"Statute (Act of Apr. 23, 1956 (1955), P.L. 1510, No. 500)","title":"Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955","dateIssued":"1956-04-23","effective":"Standing law throughout 2020 and 2021","end":"standing","startDate":"1956-04-23","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR"],"addressees":["the Department of Health and local boards and departments of health (duty to act); persons generally (sec. 521.20(a): \u0027Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act or any regulation\u0027)"],"clause":"Upon the receipt by a local board or department of health or by the department, as the case may be, of a report of a disease which is subject to isolation, quarantine, or any other control measure, the local board or department of health or the department shall carry out the appropriate control measures in such manner and in such place as is provided by rule or regulation.","enforcement":"sec. 521.20(a): for each offense, a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $300 with costs, and imprisonment in the county jail for up to 30 days in default; sec. 521.20(b): prosecutions \u0027may be instituted by the department, by a local board or department of health or by any person having knowledge of a violation\u0027","functions":[],"notes":"Commanded the Department of Health and every local health authority to carry out isolation, quarantine and \u0027any other control measure\u0027 on report of a communicable disease, under rules the Advisory Health Board issues for \u0027the enforcement of isolation quarantine and other control measures,\u0027 and made every person who violates the Act or any regulation liable to a summary conviction.","sourceUrl":"https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/PDF/1955/0/0500..PDF","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":189381,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-PA","url":"/library/DUT-PA-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-PA-001","citation":"General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Statute (Act of Apr. 23, 1956 (1955), P.L. 1510, No. 500) (standing) (Ex. DUT-PA-001)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":["PA-003","PA-007","PA-008","PA-015","PA-016","PA-020","PA-022","PA-002","PA-023","DUT-PA-010","PA-045","PA-001"]}