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Ex. DUT-ID-007 Standing duty Primary source read

IDAPA 16.02.10, Idaho Reportable Diseases (2020 edition of the Idaho Administrative Code; subsections of Section 065 amended effective March 20, 2020)

Idaho Reportable Diseases: investigation and control of reportable diseases; closure of places of public assembly; orders for isolation and quarantine; occupational restrictions

Idaho Board of Health and Welfare (rulemaking) and Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Division of Public Health · Idaho (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Idaho
Level
State
Authority
Idaho Code §§ 39-605, 39-1003, 39-1603, 56-1005 (Board's rulemaking authority), 39-906 (Director administers), 56-1003 (Director's authority), recited in IDAPA 16.02.10.000
Issued
2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
Effective
standing; edition captured May 6, 2020 (read as 2020-05-06)
End
standing (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Standing since May 6, 2020 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Business closureGathering capWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
Addressees
  • persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises (places of public assembly; premises placed under quarantine); food establishments and their food employees; health-care and child-care facilities
Character
sanitary code duty
Collection
Standing duties: Idaho DUT-ID

Operative words

05. Closure of Schools and Places of Public Assembly. The Director may order the closing of any public, parochial, or private school, or other place of public assembly when, in their opinion, such closing is necessary to protect public health. The school or other place of public assembly must not reopen until permitted by the health official. (3-20-20)

Penalty

Misdemeanor under Idaho Code § 56-1008 (violation of any rule or order issued under the public health laws) and § 56-1003(7)(c); district enforcement under § 39-419

What it required

Authorized the Director and the health district directors to close places of public assembly, to issue orders for isolation 'necessary to protect the public from a significant risk of the spread of infectious or communicable diseases' (065.08), and to declare any 'house, building, apartment, or room a place of quarantine' with 'no persons' to 'leave or enter' (065.09); defined quarantine as 'the restriction placed on the entrance to and exit from the place or premises where an infectious agent or hazardous material exists' (011.08); barred infected food employees, child-care and health-care workers from work (Sections 100 to 949); forbade interference with placards (065.03).

Retrieval note

Recited by Central District Health as 'IDAPA 16.02.10.065.08-.09' in the Ada County orders (Exs. ID-022 to ID-025). Section 011.15 defines the Director to include the designee 'as described under Sections 56-1003 and 39-414(2), Idaho Code'. The rule's occupational exclusions (food employees, day-care and health-care workers with communicable disease 'must not work') are standing workplace duties on the employer's staffing.