{"id":"DUT-PA-007","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","instrument":"Statute (Act of Apr. 27, 1905, P.L. 312, No. 218, creating the Department of Health)","title":"Department of Health Act of 1905, sections 8, 9 and 16 (duty to prevent and suppress disease; nuisance abatement and quarantine enforcement; penalty for violating any order or regulation of the Department of Health)","dateIssued":"1905-04-27","effective":"Standing law throughout 2020 and 2021","end":"standing","startDate":"1905-04-27","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR"],"addressees":["persons generally (\u0027every person\u0027); owners and occupants of premises (sec. 9)"],"clause":"Every person who violates any order or regulation of the Department of Health, or who resists or interferes with any officer or agent thereof..., shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding..., be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than ten ($10.00) dollars and costs nor more than fifty ($50.00) dollars and costs","enforcement":"sec. 16: fine of $10 to $50 and costs; confinement in the county jail for 30 days in default; sec. 9: abatement at the owner\u0027s or occupant\u0027s expense, secured by lien","functions":[],"notes":"Made it a summary offense for \u0027every person\u0027 to violate \u0027any order or regulation of the Department of Health\u0027 (sec. 16); imposed on the Department the duty \u0027to protect the health of the people of the State, and to determine and employ the most efficient and practical means for the prevention and suppression of disease\u0027 (sec. 8(a)); and empowered the Secretary \u0027to order nuisances, detrimental to the public health, or the causes of disease and mortality, to be abated and removed, and to enforce quarantine regulations,\u0027 entering any premises whose \u0027owner or occupant... fails to comply\u0027 (sec. 9).","sourceUrl":"https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/PDF/1905/0/0218..PDF","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":143019,"grade":"primary","character":"order_penalty","description":"","collection":"DUT-PA","url":"/library/DUT-PA-007","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-PA-007","citation":"General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Statute (Act of Apr. 27, 1905, P.L. 312, No. 218, creating the Department of Health) (standing) (Ex. DUT-PA-007)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":["DUT-PA-010","PA-007","PA-008","PA-002","DUT-PA-002","DUT-PA-005","DUT-PA-015","DUT-PA-019","DUT-PA-020"]}