The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 121.024
- Issued
- 1989-09-01 Sept. 1, 1989
- Effective
- standing (read as 1989-09-01)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 1, 1989 (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
- health authorities (as the local officers whose control-measure orders bound persons and premises under ch. 81)
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Texas DUT-TX
Operative words
A health authority is a state officer when performing duties prescribed by state law. (b) A health authority shall perform each duty that is: (1) necessary to implement and enforce a law to protect the public health; or (2) prescribed by the department. (c) The duties of a health authority include: (1) establishing, maintaining, and enforcing quarantine in the health authority's jurisdiction
Penalty
What it required
Every county and municipal health authority (a physician appointed under ch. 121) was a state officer under a mandatory duty to implement and enforce the public health laws, to establish, maintain and enforce quarantine, and to aid the department in 'local quarantine, inspection, disease prevention and suppression... and general sanitation,' which is the office that issued the Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Travis and El Paso County health orders in the metro layer.
Retrieval noteThe exhibit is the official chapter page as rendered September 29, 2026 (text current through the 89th Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 2025); the history lines in the exhibit show § 121.024 unchanged since 2015. Section 121.026 (a health authority's public health order imposed on more than one person, place or object expires on the 15th day unless extended by the governing body) was added by S.B. 967 effective September 1, 2021, within 2021 Q3, and is post-period for every earlier quarter.