The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Michigan
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Public Health Code Part 24
- Issued
- 1978-09-30 Sept. 30, 1978
- Effective
- 1978-09-30
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 30, 1978 (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 closureStanding duty
- Addressees
- owners or persons in control of premises; occupants
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Michigan DUT-MI
Operative words
A local health department or the department may issue an order to avoid, correct, or remove, at the owner's expense, a building or condition which violates health laws or which the local health officer or director reasonably believes to be a nuisance, unsanitary condition, or cause of illness.
Penalty
Abatement at the owner's expense, assessed against the property; court-ordered abatement; MCL 333.2261 and 333.2461 penalties
What it required
Bound the owner and occupant of premises to correct, at the owner's expense, any building or condition the health officer reasonably believed to be a nuisance, unsanitary condition or cause of illness; on non-compliance the department may abate it under warrant and assess the cost against the property like taxes, and a court may order removal or abatement at the defendant's expense (subsections (2)-(4)).
Retrieval noteSubsection (5): 'This section does not affect powers otherwise granted to local governments.' The provision is the standing vehicle by which a premises whose operation violated an epidemic order ('violates health laws') could be ordered corrected or closed independent of the order's own penalties.