The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Ky. Const. sec. 29
- Issued
- 2005-06-20 June 20, 2005
- Effective
- standing (read as 2005-06-20)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since June 20, 2005 (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
- Business closureQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- owners or occupants of property; any person, firm or corporation; heads of families and other persons
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Kentucky DUT-KY
Operative words
(6) Issue written orders directed to the owner or occupant of any property, or to any person, firm, or corporation whatever, commanding, within the time and manner specified in the order, compliance with applicable public health laws of this state and all regulations of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the county board of health.
Penalty
KRS 212.990 (fines per day); injunction under KRS 212.245(6)
What it required
Empowered every county, city-county and district health department to 'Issue and require the heads of families and other persons to execute such orders as it considers expedient to prevent the outbreak and spread of communicable diseases' (subsection (5)), to order any owner, occupant, person, firm or corporation to comply with the public health laws and Cabinet regulations (subsection (6)), to seek mandatory or prohibitory injunctions 'to compel compliance,' and to enter and inspect premises (subsection (7)); Healthy at Home delegated implementation to these departments (Ex. KY-010 para. 6) and Louisville's department closed businesses under it (Ex. MET-SDF-027). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteKRS 212.230(1)(c) (local boards 'shall... Adopt... administrative regulations... necessary to protect the health of the people') and KRS 212.210 (Cabinet and local boards may order owners or occupants to remove nuisances and causes of sickness within twenty-four hours) were read on the LRC site on September 28, 2026 and are not saved.