The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Nebraska
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Statute; Laws 1901, c. 49, § 1, as amended
- Effective
- standing throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (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
- Standing duty
- Addressees
- local public health departments and county boards of health as regulators; every person and premises within their jurisdiction as the regulated
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Nebraska DUT-NE
Operative words
The local public health department as defined in section 71-1626 or the county board of a county that has not established or joined in the establishment of a local public health department shall make and enforce regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious, infectious, and malignant diseases in the county or counties under its jurisdiction.
Penalty
§ 71-506: Class V misdemeanor for each offense; injunction by the Attorney General or county attorney (DUT-NE-005); local penalties under § 71-501(3), § 71-1631.01 (Class III misdemeanor, each day separate; DUT-NE-007) and municipal codes (LMC § 8.18.170 as recited in Ex. NE-079)
What it required
Every local public health department (and, where none exists, the county board of health) must make and enforce communicable-disease regulations binding on the persons and premises in its jurisdiction and, under subsection (3), 'shall make rules and regulations to safeguard the health of the people and prevent nuisances and insanitary conditions and shall enforce and provide penalties for the violation of such rules and regulations'.
Retrieval noteText unchanged since 2007, so the 2022 capture carries the 2020-2021 text. This is the statutory source the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department recited for its Directed Health Measures ('Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-501 and 71-1630(4) and Chapter 8.18 of the Lincoln Municipal Code'; Ex. NE-079). In 2020-2021 § 71-1632 did not yet contain the 'issue and enforce community-wide directed health measures' subdivision (added by Laws 2026, LB203); the October 2020 archived text of § 71-1632 was read and lacks it, so local DHM authority in the period rested on § 71-501 and local codes.