{"id":"DUT-MT-017","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Montana","state":"MT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Montana Legislature (Montana Code Annotated, Title 50, ch. 50, Food Establishments)","authority":"Mont. Code Ann. Title 50, ch. 50 (Food Establishments), part 1","instrument":"Mont. Code Ann. 50-50-105","title":"Diseased person not to handle food","dateIssued":"2026-09-28","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-28","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP","QUAR"],"addressees":["specified businesses (retail food establishments and food handlers and processors); employers; persons generally (the infected worker)"],"clause":"A person who has a communicable disease may not work in any retail food establishment or in the handling or processing of food served to the public until a local health officer has determined that the person is free of the infectious agent or unlikely to transmit the infectious agent because of the nature of the person\u0027s work.","enforcement":"50-50-108: purposeful or knowing violation is a misdemeanor ($50-$100 first offense; $75-$200 second; $200 and up to 90 days third and subsequent); 50-50-109: civil penalty up to $500 for the establishment; 50-50-209: license cancellation for an uncorrected violation; 50-50-106: injunctions (all read at archive.legmt.gov; not saved)","functions":[],"notes":"Every restaurant, bar, casino food service, grocery and food processor in Montana was barred by standing law from letting an employee with a communicable disease (50-1-101(1)) work until the local health officer cleared the employee; the daily \u0027Health assessments\u0027 and exclusion of symptomatic staff that the reopening Directives made mandatory (Ex. MT-013 App. A: \u0027Health assessments must be conducted for all employees at the beginning of each shift\u0027) enforced a duty the food code already imposed.","sourceUrl":"https://archive.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0500/chapter_0500/part_0010/section_0050/0500-0500-0010-0050.html","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":75128,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-MT","url":"/library/DUT-MT-017","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MT-017","citation":"Montana Legislature (Montana Code Annotated, Title 50, ch. 50, Food Establishments), Mont. Code Ann. 50-50-105 (standing) (Ex. DUT-MT-017)","stateName":"Montana","related":["MT-013"]}