The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Police power of the Commonwealth
- Issued
- 1929-04-09 Apr. 9, 1929
- Effective
- Standing law throughout 2020 and 2021 (read as 1929-04-09)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Apr. 9, 1929 (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
- the Department of Health (duty and power); persons subject to the regulations and quarantines it establishes
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Pennsylvania DUT-PA
Operative words
The Department of Health shall have the power, and its duty shall be:... (b) To establish and enforce quarantines, in such manner, for such period, and with such powers, as may now or hereafter be provided by law, to prevent the spread of diseases declared by law or by the department to be communicable diseases
Penalty
What it required
Made it the Department of Health's duty to declare diseases communicable and 'to establish such regulations for the prevention of the spread of such diseases as the department and the Advisory Health Board shall deem necessary and appropriate,' to 'establish and enforce quarantines,' and to enforce the laws on 'other means of preventing the spread of communicable diseases.' Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteRecited as '71 P.S. sec. 536' in PA-007 and PA-008 and as 'section 2106(a)' in the face-covering orders.