{"id":"DUT-ND-002","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"North Dakota","state":"ND","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Legislative Assembly of North Dakota (codified statute administered by the State Department of Health and the local boards of health)","authority":"N.D.C.C. title 23, ch. 23-07 (Reportable Diseases)","instrument":"N.D.C.C. 23-07-06, 23-07-13, 23-07-14, 23-07-15, 23-07-21","title":"Contagious or infectious diseases - power of local board of health to quarantine; local board may establish temporary hospital (infected places under board control); destruction or disinfection of infected articles; removal of infected persons; penalties","dateIssued":"2026-09-29","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-29","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","CLOSE"],"addressees":["persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises in which a contagious disease exists; employers whose workers are quarantined"],"clause":"a person is guilty of an infraction: 1. Who violates or fails to obey any provision of this chapter, any lawful rule made by the department of health and human services, or any order issued by any state, district, county, or municipal health officer; 2. Who violates any quarantine law or regulation, or who leaves a quarantined area without being discharged","enforcement":"Infraction (23-07-21): fine to $1,000, and sentencing as a class B misdemeanor on a third conviction within one year (12.1-32-01(7); Ex. DUT-ND-006); class C felony for breach of the HIV confidentiality provisions (not relevant here)","functions":[],"notes":"Whenever a case of contagious disease exists, the local board \u0027may adopt such quarantine and sanitary measures as in its judgment tend to prevent the spread of such disease\u0027 and \u0027may take such other measures as it deems necessary for the safety of the inhabitants within its jurisdiction\u0027 (23-07-06); \u0027all private houses or other places in which exists any contagious or infectious disease, during the existence of such disease, are under the control and subject to the regulations of the local board of health\u0027 (23-07-13); the board may destroy or disinfect exposed articles (23-07-14); no person may move an individual with a reportable disease without a permit (23-07-15); and every person is bound, on pain of an infraction, to obey every health-officer order and every quarantine regulation (23-07-21).","sourceUrl":"https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t23c07.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":122890,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-ND","url":"/library/DUT-ND-002","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-ND-002","citation":"Legislative Assembly of North Dakota (codified statute administered by the State Department of Health and the local boards of health), N.D.C.C. 23-07-06, 23-07-13, 23-07-14, 23-07-15, 23-07-21 (standing) (Ex. DUT-ND-002)","stateName":"North Dakota","related":["ND-061","ND-021","DUT-ND-006","DUT-ND-001","DUT-ND-011"]}