The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Iowa
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Iowa Code § 139A.4 (2021)
- Issued
- 2020-11-24 Nov. 24, 2020
- Effective
- standing throughout 2020-2021 (read as 2020-11-24)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Nov. 24, 2020 (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 (individuals and groups of individuals; owners and occupants of premises within an area quarantine)
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Iowa DUT-IA
Operative words
2. The department and the local boards may impose and enforce isolation and quarantine restrictions.... 4. The department and local boards may impose and enforce area quarantine restrictions according to rules adopted by the department. Area quarantine shall be imposed by the least restrictive means necessary to prevent or contain the spread of the suspected or confirmed quarantinable disease
Penalty
Iowa Code § 139A.25(1): knowing violation of any provision of ch. 139A, of the rules of the department or a local board, or of any lawful order of either is a simple misdemeanor (DUT-IA-010).
What it required
Every person subject to an isolation, quarantine or area-quarantine restriction imposed by the Department of Public Health or a local board of health must comply with it; the Department's rules (641 IAC ch. 1) fix the type and length of the restriction. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteOfficial Iowa Legislature Code PDF (2021 edition). The chapter-139A quarantine power was the statutory basis the Attorney General cited on June 3, 2020 for the Department's mandatory home or facility quarantine and isolation orders (DUT-IA-009 § 4.4, citing § 139A.4 and 641 IAC 1.9(2)).