The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- New Mexico
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Public Health Act, NMSA 1978, §§ 24-1-3, 24-1-5, 24-1-15; Department of Health Act
- Issued
- 2009-04-30 Apr. 30, 2009
- Effective
- standing throughout 2020-2021 (effective date of the part: April 30, 2009) (read as 2009-04-30)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Apr. 30, 2009 (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; institutions; schools, child care facilities and health care facilities; communities and regions
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: New Mexico DUT-NM
Operative words
The department of health may establish or require isolation or quarantine of any animal, person, institution, community or region.... Any order issued by the department of health under the Public Health Act or these rules shall be enforceable as provided by law and violation is punishable in accordance with Section 24-1-21 NMSA 1978.
Penalty
NMSA 1978, § 24-1-21 (petty misdemeanor; civil enforcement), as 7.4.3.9(G) NMAC provides
What it required
Authorized the Department to 'take such measures as are deemed necessary and proper for the protection of the public health,' to isolate or quarantine any person, institution, community or region, to require schools, child care and health facilities to exclude infected persons and to 'close and discontinue operations if there is likelihood of an epidemic,' and made every departmental order enforceable and punishable under Section 24-1-21.
Retrieval noteRendered from the Wayback capture of March 9, 2022 of the State Records Center and Archives' official NMAC text; the history note at 7.4.3.9 NMAC shows no amendment after June 15, 2016, so the text in force in 2020-2021 is the text rendered. Section 7.4.3.13 lists COVID-19 among notifiable conditions in the 2022 text; the 2020 emergency additions of COVID-19 to the notifiable list are not separately saved.