{"id":"DUT-KS-002","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Kansas","state":"KS","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Kansas Legislature (K.S.A., Revisor of Statutes)","authority":"K.S.A. 65-119","instrument":"K.S.A. 65-119, Duties of local boards of health and local health officers; contagious diseases (current text, as amended L. 2025, ch. 115, § 2)","title":"65-119. Duties of local boards of health and health officers; contagious diseases; confidentiality of information; disclosure, when","dateIssued":"2025-07-01","effective":"standing throughout 2020-2021 (period text in DUT-KS-001 § 2)","end":"standing","startDate":"2025-07-01","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","GATH"],"addressees":["county and joint boards of health and local health officers (duty); persons generally and owners or persons in control of premises (objects of the enforced restriction, quarantine and disinfection provisions)"],"clause":"Any county or joint board of health or local health officer having knowledge of any infectious or contagious disease... shall immediately exercise and maintain a supervision over such case or cases during their continuance, seeing that all such cases are properly cared for and that the provisions of this act pertaining to... are duly enforced.","enforcement":"K.S.A. 65-127: $25 to $100 for each offense of violating or failing to comply with any requirement of 65-119 (DUT-KS-004)","functions":[],"notes":"Every county board of health and local health officer had to supervise every case of COVID-19 in the county and enforce the statutory provisions on isolation, restriction of communication, quarantine and disinfection, and (through June 30, 2025) could prohibit public gatherings when necessary to control the disease; the county health orders in the library (KS-080 to KS-096) were issued under this section with 65-202 and 48-932.","sourceUrl":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch65/065_001_0019.html","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":145862,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-KS","url":"/library/DUT-KS-002","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-KS-002","citation":"Kansas Legislature (K.S.A., Revisor of Statutes), K.S.A. 65-119, Duties of local boards of health and local health officers; contagious diseases (current text, as amended L. 2025, ch. 115, § 2) (standing) (Ex. DUT-KS-002)","stateName":"Kansas","related":["DUT-KS-001","KS-080","KS-096","DUT-KS-004"]}