{"id":"DUT-OK-003","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Oklahoma","state":"OK","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Oklahoma Legislature (Oklahoma Public Health Code; the State Commissioner of Health)","authority":"63 O.S. ch. 1, art. 1 (Administration)","instrument":"63 O.S. 1-106","title":"State Commissioner of Health - Qualifications - Powers and Duties","dateIssued":"2004-11-01","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"2004-11-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","COND","QUAR","CLOSE"],"addressees":["owners or persons in control of premises (\u0027all buildings and places of public resort\u0027); persons generally (segregation, isolation, quarantine)"],"clause":"all buildings and places of public resort, and recommend, prescribe and enforce such measures of health, sanitation and safety for them as the Commissioner deems advisable; take such measures as deemed necessary by the Commissioner to control or suppress, or to prevent the occurrence or spread of, any communicable, contagious or infectious disease","enforcement":"Enforcement by orders under the Administrative Procedures Act (paragraph C.4) and by the Code\u0027s licensing and nuisance provisions (63 O.S. 1-1011, 1-1118; DUT-OK-017, DUT-OK-018); 21 O.S. 1195 and 1199 (DUT-OK-004, DUT-OK-005)","functions":[],"notes":"The Commissioner of Health, the \u0027public health authority\u0027 under the Catastrophic Health Emergency Powers Act (63 O.S. 6104(11)), holds standing power to prescribe and enforce health, sanitation and safety measures for every building and place of public resort, to take measures to prevent the spread of communicable disease, to \u0027provide for the segregation and isolation of persons having or suspected of having any such disease\u0027, to \u0027designate places of quarantine or isolation\u0027 and to \u0027abate any nuisance affecting injuriously the health of the public\u0027, with a right of access to any premises (paragraph C.4); the OSDH COVID-19 protocols the orders incorporated were exercises of this power. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=97929","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":448469,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-OK","url":"/library/DUT-OK-003","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-OK-003","citation":"Oklahoma Legislature (Oklahoma Public Health Code; the State Commissioner of Health), 63 O.S. 1-106 (standing) (Ex. DUT-OK-003)","stateName":"Oklahoma","related":["DUT-OK-019","DUT-OK-017","DUT-OK-018","DUT-OK-004","DUT-OK-005"]}