The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Vermont
- Level
- State
- Authority
- police power of the State; 18 V.S.A. sec. 604 (the selectboard and the local health officer constitute the local board of health)
- Effective
- standing; in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021 (text captured January 20, 2021) (read as 2021-01-20)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Jan. 20, 2021 (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 within the municipality
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Vermont DUT-VT
Operative words
A local board of health may make and enforce rules in such town or city relating to the prevention, removal, or destruction of public health hazards and the mitigation of public health risks, provided that such rules have been approved by the Commissioner. Such rules shall be posted and published in the same manner that ordinances of the municipality are required to be posted and published.
Penalty
18 V.S.A. sec. 130 (action by the local board of health; civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation) and sec. 131 (criminal); municipal ordinance enforcement
What it required
Every person and business in a town to comply with the local board of health's Commissioner-approved rules for the prevention, removal or destruction of public health hazards and the mitigation of public health risks; the local vehicle for the stricter municipal mask, bar and gathering rules the Governor's orders invited (Exs. VT-021 para. 3, VT-024 para. 8, VT-029 para. 2).
Retrieval noteRendered from the Internet Archive's January 20, 2021 capture of the official page: the text as in force in the period. The history note shows no amendment after 2017. Subsection (b) concerns sewage; subsection (c) requires local rules to be 'consistent with the purposes, policies, and provisions of this title'.