The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Montana
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Mont. Code Ann. Title 50, ch. 50 (Food Establishments), part 1
- Issued
- 2026-09-28 Sept. 28, 2026
- Effective
- standing (read as 2026-09-28)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 28, 2026 (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
- Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- specified businesses (retail food establishments and food handlers and processors); employers; persons generally (the infected worker)
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Montana DUT-MT
Operative words
A person who has a communicable disease may not work in any retail food establishment or in the handling or processing of food served to the public until a local health officer has determined that the person is free of the infectious agent or unlikely to transmit the infectious agent because of the nature of the person's work.
Penalty
50-50-108: purposeful or knowing violation is a misdemeanor ($50-$100 first offense; $75-$200 second; $200 and up to 90 days third and subsequent); 50-50-109: civil penalty up to $500 for the establishment; 50-50-209: license cancellation for an uncorrected violation; 50-50-106: injunctions (all read at archive.legmt.gov; not saved)
What it required
Every restaurant, bar, casino food service, grocery and food processor in Montana was barred by standing law from letting an employee with a communicable disease (50-1-101(1)) work until the local health officer cleared the employee; the daily 'Health assessments' and exclusion of symptomatic staff that the reopening Directives made mandatory (Ex. MT-013 App. A: 'Health assessments must be conducted for all employees at the beginning of each shift') enforced a duty the food code already imposed.
Retrieval noteThey are described by category only.