{"id":"DUT-GA-003","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"General Assembly of Georgia (Title 31, Chapter 2A, Department of Public Health; enacted 2011 on the creation of the Department, carrying forward Code 1933, section 88-108)","authority":"Police power of the State; Title 31, Chapter 2A","instrument":"O.C.G.A. section 31-2A-4","title":"Obligation to safeguard and promote health of people of the state","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","CLOSE"],"addressees":["the Department of Public Health (duty and powers); persons generally (subjects of the measures)"],"clause":"The Department of Public Health shall safeguard and promote the health of the people of this state and is empowered to employ all legal means appropriate to that end.... [T]he department is empowered to:... (2) Forestall and correct physical, chemical, and biological conditions that, if left to run their course, could be injurious to health;...","enforcement":"Misdemeanor under O.C.G.A. section 31-5-8; injunction under section 31-5-9 (Ex. DUT-GA-004)","functions":[],"notes":"The Department is under a statutory obligation (\u0027shall safeguard and promote\u0027) and holds \u0027all legal means appropriate to that end,\u0027 including paragraph (4): to \u0027isolate and treat persons afflicted with a communicable disease who are either unable or unwilling to observe the department\u0027s rules and regulations for the suppression of such disease and to establish, to that end, complete or modified quarantine, surveillance, or isolation of persons and animals exposed to a disease communicable to man.\u0027 Every Governor\u0027s order in the library recites this section beside section 38-3-51 (e.g., Ex. GA-010 recites 38-3-51(c)(4), (d)(1); 31-2A-4; 31-12-4; 38-3-7). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2024/T31%20(V23)%202019.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":3338916,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-GA","url":"/library/DUT-GA-003","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-GA-003","citation":"General Assembly of Georgia (Title 31, Chapter 2A, Department of Public Health; enacted 2011 on the creation of the Department, carrying forward Code 1933, section 88-108), O.C.G.A. section 31-2A-4 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-003)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["GA-010","DUT-GA-001","DUT-GA-004"]}