The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Mexico
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Public Health Act, NMSA 1978, Sections 24-1-1 to 24-1-40
- Effective
- standing throughout 2020-2021
- 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
- persons generally; employers whose employees were isolated or quarantined
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: New Mexico DUT-NM
Operative words
The secretary... may, by public health order, temporarily isolate or quarantine a person or group of persons if delay in isolating or quarantining would significantly jeopardize the secretary's ability to prevent or limit the transmission to others of a threatening communicable disease.... A person shall not enter an area of isolation or quarantine except as authorized by the department.
Penalty
NMSA 1978, § 24-1-21 (petty misdemeanor; civil enforcement); court-ordered isolation or quarantine under § 24-1-15(A)-(J)
What it required
Authorized the Secretary of Health to isolate or quarantine persons or groups by public health order (with court continuation) and forbade any person to enter an area of isolation or quarantine except as the department authorized; the statutory footing of the traveler-quarantine executive orders (Exs. NM-024, NM-031, NM-034, NM-037). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteSame exhibit file as DUT-NM-001 (the official Chapter 24 compilation); Section 24-1-15 follows Section 24-1-14 in Article 1. Grisham v. Reeb, 2021-NMSC-006, para. 40, describes the PHA's own 'quarantine and isolation procedures' at Sections 24-1-3(D) and 24-1-15 as 'more broadly applicable' than the PHERA's.