The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- North Dakota
- Level
- State
- Authority
- N.D.C.C. title 23, ch. 23-07 (Reportable Diseases)
- Issued
- 2026-09-29 Sept. 29, 2026
- Effective
- standing (read as 2026-09-29)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 29, 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
- Business closureQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises in which a contagious disease exists; employers whose workers are quarantined
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: North Dakota DUT-ND
Operative words
a person is guilty of an infraction: 1. Who violates or fails to obey any provision of this chapter, any lawful rule made by the department of health and human services, or any order issued by any state, district, county, or municipal health officer; 2. Who violates any quarantine law or regulation, or who leaves a quarantined area without being discharged
Penalty
Infraction (23-07-21): fine to $1,000, and sentencing as a class B misdemeanor on a third conviction within one year (12.1-32-01(7); Ex. DUT-ND-006); class C felony for breach of the HIV confidentiality provisions (not relevant here)
What it required
Whenever a case of contagious disease exists, the local board 'may adopt such quarantine and sanitary measures as in its judgment tend to prevent the spread of such disease' and 'may take such other measures as it deems necessary for the safety of the inhabitants within its jurisdiction' (23-07-06); 'all private houses or other places in which exists any contagious or infectious disease, during the existence of such disease, are under the control and subject to the regulations of the local board of health' (23-07-13); the board may destroy or disinfect exposed articles (23-07-14); no person may move an individual with a reportable disease without a permit (23-07-15); and every person is bound, on pain of an infraction, to obey every health-officer order and every quarantine regulation (23-07-21).
Retrieval noteSection C of State Health Officer Order 2020-08 (Ex. ND-061) and of the confinement orders (Ex. ND-021) recites this section: 'a person is guilty of an infraction if that person violates or fails to obey any order issued by the State Health Officer. the 2020-2021 text of 23-07-21 read 'state department of health' in place of the present department name.