{"id":"DUT-PA-019","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. 9, 1929, P.L. 177, No. 175, sec. 2106)","title":"The Administrative Code of 1929, section 2106, Quarantines (powers and duties of the Department of Health)","dateIssued":"1929-04-09","effective":"Standing law throughout 2020 and 2021","end":"standing","startDate":"1929-04-09","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR"],"addressees":["the Department of Health (duty and power); persons subject to the regulations and quarantines it establishes"],"clause":"The Department of Health shall have the power, and its duty shall be:... (b) To establish and enforce quarantines, in such manner, for such period, and with such powers, as may now or hereafter be provided by law, to prevent the spread of diseases declared by law or by the department to be communicable diseases","enforcement":"71 P.S. sec. 1409 (Ex. DUT-PA-007); 35 P.S. sec. 521.20 (Ex. DUT-PA-001)","functions":[],"notes":"Made it the Department of Health\u0027s duty to declare diseases communicable and \u0027to establish such regulations for the prevention of the spread of such diseases as the department and the Advisory Health Board shall deem necessary and appropriate,\u0027 to \u0027establish and enforce quarantines,\u0027 and to enforce the laws on \u0027other means of preventing the spread of communicable diseases.\u0027 Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://www.palegis.us/statutes/unconsolidated/law-information/view-statute?txtType=PDF\u0026SessYr=1929\u0026SessInd=0\u0026ActNum=0175.\u0026chpt=21\u0026subchpt=000.\u0026sctn=6\u0026subsctn=000.","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":62784,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-PA","url":"/library/DUT-PA-019","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-PA-019","citation":"General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Statute (Act of Apr. 9, 1929, P.L. 177, No. 175, sec. 2106) (standing) (Ex. DUT-PA-019)","stateName":"Pennsylvania","related":["PA-007","PA-008","DUT-PA-007","DUT-PA-001","DUT-PA-002"]}