{"id":"DUT-MN-005","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Minnesota (community health boards: counties, cities and multi-county boards statewide)","state":"MN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Minnesota Legislature (Local Public Health Act, Minn. Stat. ch. 145A)","authority":"Minn. Stat. § 145A.04","instrument":"Minn. Stat. § 145A.04 (2020)","title":"Powers and Duties of Community Health Board: investigation, reporting and control of communicable diseases; removal and abatement of public health nuisances","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","CLOSE"],"addressees":["owners or occupants of property (any property, including business premises); community health boards, counties and cities"],"clause":"If a threat to the public health such as a public health nuisance, source of filth, or cause of sickness is found on any property, the community health board, county, city, or its agent shall order the owner or occupant of the property to remove or abate the threat within a time specified in the notice but not longer than ten days.","enforcement":"Costs of abatement assessed against the owner and the real property (§ 145A.08 subd. 2, read); the commissioner \u0027shall inform the attorney general\u0027, who \u0027shall institute proceedings to enforce the provisions of this chapter\u0027 (§ 145A.06 subd. 2(d), read); a person with a communicable disease \u0027subject to control by the community health board is financially liable\u0027 for the cost of control (§ 145A.08 subd. 1, read).","functions":[],"notes":"Every community health board \u0027shall make investigations... and reports and obey instructions on the control of communicable diseases as the commissioner may direct under section 144.12\u0027 (subd. 6), and shall order the owner or occupant of any property on which a \u0027cause of sickness\u0027 is found to abate it within ten days (subd. 8), with the cost of enforcement chargeable against the property.","sourceUrl":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/2020/cite/145A.04/pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":332310,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-MN","url":"/library/DUT-MN-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MN-005","citation":"Minnesota Legislature (Local Public Health Act, Minn. Stat. ch. 145A), Minn. Stat. § 145A.04 (2020) (standing) (Ex. DUT-MN-005)","stateName":"Minnesota","related":["MET-MSP-001","MET-MSP-021"]}