The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Police power of the State; Title 31 (Health), Chapter 12 (Control of Hazardous Conditions, Preventable Diseases, and Metabolic Disorders)
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Quarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally (infected persons, carriers, and persons exposed to or suspected of infection); the Department and county boards of health as ordering authorities
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Georgia DUT-GA
Operative words
The department and all county boards of health may, from time to time, require the isolation or segregation of persons with communicable diseases or conditions likely to endanger the health of others. The department may, in addition, require quarantine or surveillance of carriers of disease and persons exposed to, or suspected of being infected with, infectious disease...
Penalty
Any person violating any provision of Title 31 is guilty of a misdemeanor (O.C.G.A. section 31-5-8); injunction and abatement of public nuisances (section 31-5-9) (Ex. DUT-GA-004)
What it required
The Department of Public Health and every county board of health may compel the isolation or segregation of infected persons, and the Department may compel the quarantine or surveillance of exposed or suspected persons until found free of the disease; the Department 'shall promulgate' rules implementing the section for a declared public health emergency (the rules are Ex. DUT-GA-005). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteOfficial Code of Georgia Annotated, Title 31 (Volume 23, 2019 replacement volume, prepared by the Code Revision Commission, the Office of Legislative Counsel and LexisNexis), as posted by Public.Resource.Org in Internet Archive item gov.ga.ocga.2024. Section text at PDF p. 692. The history line shows no amendment after 2002, so this is the text in force in 2020-2021. The same volume PDF is the file for Exs. DUT-GA-002, DUT-GA-003 and DUT-GA-004. The official LexisNexis site and the Justia and FindLaw mirrors refuse automated retrieval (Cloudflare), which is why the official volume was used.