{"id":"DUT-MS-009","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Mississippi","state":"MS","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Legislature of Mississippi (Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 41, ch. 23)","authority":"Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-1","instrument":"Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-1","title":"State Board of Health to adopt rules defining and classifying communicable diseases and establishing reporting, monitoring and preventive procedures; reporting duties","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","OTHER"],"addressees":["the State Board of Health (duty to adopt rules); physicians, hospitals and medical examiners (reporting); persons generally through the rules adopted"],"clause":"(1) The State Board of Health shall adopt rules and regulations (a) defining and classifying communicable diseases and other diseases that are a danger to health based upon the characteristics of the disease; and (b) establishing reporting, monitoring and preventive procedures for those diseases.","enforcement":"Through the rules adopted: prosecution and isolation (Ex. DUT-MS-004, Rule 1.6.1); § 41-3-15(12) (Ex. DUT-MS-001); § 41-23-2 (Ex. DUT-MS-008)","functions":[],"notes":"The Board must adopt communicable-disease rules with \u0027preventive procedures\u0027; the Rules Governing Reportable Diseases and Conditions (Ex. DUT-MS-004) and the classification that names COVID-19 outbreaks a Class 1A condition are those rules; subsection (2) imposes reporting duties on attending physicians, persons in charge of hospitals and medical examiners.","sourceUrl":"https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-41-public-health/ms-code-sect-41-23-1.html","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200428142435/https://codes.findlaw.com/ms/title-41-public-health/ms-code-sect-41-23-1.html","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":119604,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-MS","url":"/library/DUT-MS-009","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MS-009","citation":"Legislature of Mississippi (Mississippi Code of 1972, Title 41, ch. 23), Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-1 (standing) (Ex. DUT-MS-009)","stateName":"Mississippi","related":["DUT-MS-004","DUT-MS-001","DUT-MS-008"]}