The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Nebraska
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Statute; Laws 1919, c. 190, tit. VI, art. I, § 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
- Quarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- DHHS; by its orders, persons generally and owners of premises
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Nebraska DUT-NE
Operative words
The Department of Health and Human Services shall have general supervision and control over matters relating to public health and sanitation and shall provide for examination as provided in section 81-602 and have supervision over all matters of quarantine and quarantine regulations.
Penalty
Enforced through 173 NAC 6-009 and § 71-506 (Class V misdemeanor; injunction)
What it required
Vests DHHS with supervision and control of public health, sanitation and all matters of quarantine; recited with § 71-502 and 173 NAC 6 as the authority of every Directed Health Measure.
Retrieval noteText unchanged since 2007. Every DHM opens: 'Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-502 and 81-601 and Title 173 Neb. Admin. Code Ch. 6 the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services may exercise its authority to order Directed Health Measures necessary to prevent the spread of communicable disease' (Ex. NE-021, NE-026).