{"id":"DUT-TX-003","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Texas","state":"TX","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code ch. 81, Subchapter E)","authority":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.083(b), (k)","instrument":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.083","title":"Application of Control Measures to Individual","dateIssued":"1989-09-01","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"1989-09-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["QUAR","DUTY"],"addressees":["persons generally (individuals and groups of five or more)"],"clause":"If the department or a health authority has reasonable cause to believe that an individual is ill with, has been exposed to, or is the carrier of a communicable disease, the department or health authority may order the individual... to implement control measures that are reasonable and necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, and spread of the disease in this state.","enforcement":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.087: Class B misdemeanor (fine to $2,000, confinement to 180 days, or both; Penal Code § 12.22, Ex. DUT-TX-019)","functions":[],"notes":"Any individual, and under subsection (k) every member of a group of five or more, believed to be ill with, exposed to or a carrier of a communicable disease was bound to implement the control measures the department or health authority ordered (isolation, quarantine, restriction), which is the legal basis on which the exclusion of symptomatic and exposed employees from the workplace rested; subsection (l)(6) recites that \u0027a criminal penalty applies\u0027 to a group member who \u0027knowingly refuses to perform or allow the performance of the control measures in the order.\u0027 Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","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_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-TX","url":"/library/DUT-TX-003","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-TX-003","citation":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code ch. 81, Subchapter E), Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.083 (standing) (Ex. DUT-TX-003)","stateName":"Texas","related":["TX-043","DUT-TX-020","DUT-TX-019","DUT-TX-001","DUT-TX-004","DUT-TX-005","DUT-TX-006"]}