{"id":"DUT-UT-002","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Utah","state":"UT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Utah Legislature (Utah Code Title 26, Chapter 6, Communicable Disease Control Act; version effective May 14, 2019)","authority":"Police power of the State; Utah Code Title 26, Chapter 6","instrument":"Utah Code section 26-6-3","title":"Authority to investigate and control epidemic infections and communicable disease","dateIssued":"2019-05-14","effective":"2019-05-14","end":"standing (this version superseded May 5, 2021; the May 5, 2021 version, read on the Legislature\u0027s site, adds the words \u0027Subject to Subsection (3) and the restrictions in this title\u0027 and otherwise carries subsection (1) unchanged)","startDate":"2019-05-14","endDate":"2021-05-05","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["QUAR","DUTY"],"addressees":["persons generally; the Department as ordering authority"],"clause":"The department has authority to investigate and control the causes of epidemic infections and communicable disease, and shall provide for the detection, reporting, prevention, and control of communicable diseases and epidemic infections or any other health hazard which may affect the public health.","enforcement":"Utah Code section 26-23-6 (Ex. DUT-UT-003): class B misdemeanor; civil penalty up to $10,000 per violation","functions":[],"notes":"The Department \u0027shall provide for the... prevention, and control of communicable diseases\u0027 and holds the authority to control their causes, the second statutory authority recited in every State Public Health Order in the library. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title26/Chapter6/C26-6-S3_2019051420190514.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":6801,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-UT","url":"/library/DUT-UT-002","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-UT-002","citation":"Utah Legislature (Utah Code Title 26, Chapter 6, Communicable Disease Control Act; version effective May 14, 2019), Utah Code section 26-6-3 (standing) (Ex. DUT-UT-002)","stateName":"Utah","related":["UT-040","DUT-UT-003"]}