{"id":"DUT-AL-005","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Alabama","state":"AL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Legislature of Alabama (Code of Alabama 1975, Title 22, chapter 3)","authority":"Code of Alabama 1975, § 22-3-5","instrument":"Ala. Code § 22-3-5(1)-(3)","title":"County health officers -- Duties generally","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","CLOSE","GATH"],"addressees":["county health officers as duty-bearers; owners or persons in control of premises and places where the public gathers, whose conditions the officer must compel to be abated"],"clause":"should he discover any cause of disease or the existence of any condition detrimental to the health of the people, he shall, so far as authorized by law, compel the removal or abatement of the same... [as to a notifiable disease] in imminent danger of spreading, he shall, in accordance with the law, institute immediate measures to prevent the spread of such disease","enforcement":"abatement compelled \u0027so far as authorized by law\u0027; § 22-2-14 for violation of Board rules; permit suspension under § 22-20-5 (Ex. DUT-AL-006)","functions":[],"notes":"Each county health officer must compel the removal or abatement of any condition detrimental to health, must institute immediate measures against a notifiable disease in imminent danger of spreading, and must visit \u0027all places where the public gathers\u0027 and report insanitary conditions for remedy (§ 22-3-5(1)-(3)); the Jefferson and Mobile County orders of March 2020 (Exs. AL-074, AL-077, AL-091, AL-092) were exercises of this duty.","sourceUrl":"https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/legal/assets/publichealthlawsofalabama.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":4458194,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-AL","url":"/library/DUT-AL-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-AL-005","citation":"Legislature of Alabama (Code of Alabama 1975, Title 22, chapter 3), Ala. Code § 22-3-5(1)-(3) (standing) (Ex. DUT-AL-005)","stateName":"Alabama","related":["AL-074","AL-077","AL-091","AL-092","AL-005","DUT-AL-006"]}