{"id":"DUT-WI-003","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Wisconsin","state":"WI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Wisconsin Legislature (codified statute; executed by DHS and local health officers)","authority":"Wis. Stat. ch. 252, Communicable Diseases; § 250.042 (public health emergency powers)","instrument":"Wis. Stat. § 252.06 (2019-20), Isolation and quarantine","title":"Isolation and quarantine: DHS or local officer may require isolation, quarantine of contacts and disinfection (1); mandatory action on reasonable belief in a communicable disease (3); persons forbidden direct contact; entry into isolation or quarantine premises an offense when § 250.042(1) applies (4); quarantine guards with police powers (5); removal to a separate place (6)","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR"],"addressees":["persons generally (cases, contacts, and any person entering isolation or quarantine premises); employers through the exclusion of isolated and quarantined workers"],"clause":"(3)... a reasonable belief in the existence of a communicable disease shall require the local health officer immediately to quarantine, isolate, require restrictions or take other communicable disease control measures in the manner, upon the persons and for the time specified in rules promulgated by the department.... The local health officer shall... act to protect the public.","enforcement":"Sub. (4)(b)2.: fine not to exceed $10,000 or imprisonment not to exceed 9 months, or both, for entering isolation or quarantine premises when § 250.042(1) applies; otherwise § 252.25 (30 days / $500); enforcement by quarantine guards with police powers (sub. (5)).","functions":[],"notes":"Any employee who was a case or a contact could be ordered into isolation or quarantine and excluded from the workplace by mandatory action of the local health officer; when § 250.042(1) applied (a declared public health emergency), \u0027No person, other than a person authorized by the public health authority... may enter an isolation or quarantine premises,\u0027 on pain of a fine up to $10,000 or imprisonment up to 9 months (sub. (4)(b)); quarantine guards \u0027shall have police powers, and may use all necessary means to enforce the state laws for the prevention and control of communicable diseases\u0027 (sub. (5)).","sourceUrl":"https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/2019/252.06","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":251928,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-WI","url":"/library/DUT-WI-003","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-WI-003","citation":"Wisconsin Legislature (codified statute; executed by DHS and local health officers), Wis. Stat. § 252.06 (2019-20), Isolation and quarantine (standing) (Ex. DUT-WI-003)","stateName":"Wisconsin","related":["WI-001","WI-008","WI-010","WI-014","WI-016","WI-019","WI-021"]}