The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Wisconsin
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Wis. Stat. §§ 227.11(2), 250.04, 252.02(4), 252.04, 252.05 (DHS 145.01)
- 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
- Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyOperating condition
- Addressees
- owners or persons in control of premises ('persons who own or supervise real or physical property'); persons generally (sub. (4)); local health officers (145.05 'shall use all reasonable means' and 'shall follow the methods of control' of the APHA)
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Wisconsin DUT-WI
Operative words
Officials empowered under... s. 252.03 (1) and (2), Stats., may direct persons who own or supervise real or physical property... which present a threat of transmission of any communicable disease... to do what is reasonable and necessary to abate the threat of transmission. Persons failing or refusing to comply with a directive shall come under the provisions of sub. (5)...
Penalty
DHS 145.06(5): petition to a court of record to order compliance; § 252.25 (30 days / $500) for willful violation or obstruction of a departmental rule or order under ch. 252.
What it required
Every owner or supervisor of business property presenting a threat of COVID-19 transmission could be directed by DHS or the local health officer 'to do what is reasonable and necessary to abate the threat of transmission,' with court enforcement of the directive (sub. (5)); any person known or suspected to have a contagious condition could be directed to 'cease and desist in conduct or employment which constitutes a threat to others' (sub. (4)(e)); COVID-19 was within sub. (1) as a disease the chief medical officer deemed a threat and as a reportable disease under Appendix A.
Retrieval noteThe official chapter PDF as currently published (Register November 2024 No. 827) is saved; the history notes printed under DHS 145.06 show no amendment after the 2008 correction, so the text quoted is the text in force in every quarter. § 252.02 cross-references 'ch. DHS 145, Wis. adm. code.'.