The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Vermont
- Level
- State
- Authority
- police power of the State
- Issued
- 2023-06-08 June 8, 2023
- Effective
- standing; in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021 (read as 2023-06-08)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since June 8, 2023 (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
- Standing duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; employers; owners or persons in control of premises
- Character
- statutory framework
- Collection
- Standing duties: Vermont DUT-VT
Operative words
"Public health hazard" means the potential harm to the public health by virtue of any condition or any biological, chemical, or physical agent.... "Significant public health risk" means a public health risk of such magnitude that the Commissioner or a local health officer has reason to believe that it must be mitigated.
Penalty
none in itself; operative through 18 V.S.A. secs. 126, 127, 130, 131, 602a, 613
What it required
Supplies the triggers of the health-order duty: a 'condition or any biological, chemical, or physical agent' with 'potential harm to the public health' is a public health hazard, and a risk the Commissioner or a local health officer 'has reason to believe... must be mitigated' is a significant public health risk, against which sections 126 and 127 orders run and sections 130 and 131 penalties attach; a communicable disease circulating in a workplace or place of assemblage is within the definition on its face. Character as recorded: statutory_framework (definition).
Retrieval noteCurrent text rendered September 29, 2026. Subdivision (4): '"Health officer" means the Commissioner of Health, the Commissioner's designee, or a local or district health officer.' Subdivision (9) continues with the factors the Commissioner considers in determining whether a hazard is public or private (number of persons at risk, characteristics of the persons, source, availability of private remedies, geographical area, Department policy). The 2023 and 2024 amendments postdate the period; the definitions quoted are those of the 1985 act as carried in the code.