{"id":"DUT-ND-003","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 Health Officer and local health officers)","authority":"N.D.C.C. title 23, ch. 23-07.6 (Confinement of Persons With Communicable Disease)","instrument":"N.D.C.C. 23-07.6-01 to 23-07.6-12","title":"Confinement order - penalty; procedures for isolation and quarantine; place of confinement; court review","dateIssued":"2026-09-29","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-29","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR"],"addressees":["persons generally; groups of persons, including an employer\u0027s workforce (Ex. ND-031); owners or persons in control of premises used for confinement (hotels were named as places of confinement in Ex. ND-021)"],"clause":"Cooperation. Persons subject to isolation or quarantine shall obey the health officer\u0027s rules and orders and must not go beyond the isolation or quarantine premises. Failure to obey these provisions is a class B misdemeanor.","enforcement":"Class B misdemeanor (23-07.6-02(3), (4)(b)): thirty days and $1,500 for an individual, $20,000 for an organization (12.1-32-01(6), 12.1-32-01.1(5); Ex. DUT-ND-006)","functions":[],"notes":"The State Health Officer or any local health officer \u0027may order any person or group into confinement by a written directive\u0027 where the person or group is reasonably believed infected and \u0027poses a substantial threat to the public health\u0027 (23-07.6-02(1)); confinement \u0027may include confinement to private homes or other private and public premises\u0027 (23-07.6-02(2)(a)); the directive must specify \u0027the premises subject to isolation or quarantine\u0027 and the \u0027decontamination, treatment, or prevention measures that must be followed\u0027 (23-07.6-03(1)(b)); unauthorized entry into confinement premises is a class B misdemeanor (23-07.6-02(4)(b)).","sourceUrl":"https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t23c07-6.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":75597,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-ND","url":"/library/DUT-ND-003","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-ND-003","citation":"Legislative Assembly of North Dakota (codified statute administered by the State Health Officer and local health officers), N.D.C.C. 23-07.6-01 to 23-07.6-12 (standing) (Ex. DUT-ND-003)","stateName":"North Dakota","related":["ND-012","ND-024","ND-014","ND-021","ND-022","ND-026","ND-031","ND-060","DUT-ND-006","DUT-ND-001"]}