{"id":"DUT-TX-001","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Texas","state":"TX","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code, Title 2, Subtitle D, Chapter 81, Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act)","authority":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.002","instrument":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.002","title":"Responsibility of State and Public","dateIssued":"1989-09-01","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"1989-09-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY"],"addressees":["persons generally (each person, including employers and owners or persons in control of premises)"],"clause":"The state has a duty to protect the public health. Each person shall act responsibly to prevent and control communicable disease.","enforcement":"No penalty in the section itself; the duty is enforced through the control-measure orders and offenses of §§ 81.083 to 81.087 (Exs. DUT-TX-003 to DUT-TX-006), the area-quarantine felony of § 81.085(h) (Ex. DUT-TX-005) and the public-health-nuisance offenses of ch. 341 (Ex. DUT-TX-017).","functions":[],"notes":"Every person in Texas, which includes every employer and every owner or operator of premises, was under a standing statutory command to act responsibly to prevent and control communicable disease, the command the Commissioner of State Health Services invoked in the public health disaster declaration of March 19, 2020 (Ex. DUT-TX-008).","sourceUrl":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.81.htm","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20201206082504/https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.81.htm","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":694750,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-TX","url":"/library/DUT-TX-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-TX-001","citation":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code, Title 2, Subtitle D, Chapter 81, Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act), Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.002 (standing) (Ex. DUT-TX-001)","stateName":"Texas","related":["DUT-TX-008","DUT-TX-006","DUT-TX-003","DUT-TX-005","DUT-TX-017"]}