The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Tennessee
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Police power of the State; Tenn. Code Ann. title 68, ch. 5, pt. 1
- Effective
- standing
- 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
- Business closureQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- local health authorities (duty); persons isolated or quarantined; owners or persons in control of premises on which a case, cause or source is found
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Tennessee DUT-TN
Operative words
It is the duty of the local health authorities, on receipt of a report of a case, or suspected case, of disease declared to be communicable... to take such steps as may be necessary to isolate or quarantine the case or premise upon which the case, cause or source may be found, as may be required by the rules and regulations of the state department of health.
Penalty
Class B misdemeanor for willful escape from isolation or quarantine (up to six months and $500 under sec. 40-35-111 as summarized on the page)
What it required
Imposed on every local health authority a duty, on report of a communicable disease, to confirm the diagnosis, find the source, and isolate or quarantine the case or the premises on which the case, cause or source is found; directed the commissioner to promulgate rules 'necessary to prevent the spread of contagious or communicable diseases' (subsection (a)(2)); made willful escape from isolation or quarantine a Class B misdemeanor (subsection (b)); required delivery of the law to the head of a quarantined household (subsection (c)).
Retrieval noteText read in the saved exhibit (LawServer mirror, 'current as of 2024'). This is the section the Department's rules recite as authority for Rules 1200-14-01-.26 and -.27 (Ex. DUT-TN-005).