{"id":"DUT-OR-007","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Oregon","state":"OR","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Oregon Legislative Assembly (codified text published by the Office of the Legislative Counsel, 2025 Edition)","authority":"ORS 624.041 [Formerly 624.100; 2009 c.595 s.1002; 2011 c.664 s.6]; ORS 624.073 [Formerly 624.085; 2009 c.595 s.1007]; ORS 624.080 [... 2009 c.595 s.1009; 2011 c.664 s.7]; ORS 624.096 [Formerly 624.075; 2009 c.595 s.1012; 2011 c.664 s.10]; ORS 624.990 [... 2009 c.595 s.1037]; ORS 624.992 [1995 c.578 s.14;... 2009 c.595 s.1038]","instrument":"Statute: ORS chapter 624 (Food Service Facilities), the sanitary code for restaurants: OHA\u0027s duty to make sanitation rules (624.041); license suspension, closure for imminent danger (624.073); diseased persons may not work and may not be employed, and the manager\u0027s duty to notify OHA (624.080); summary closure (624.096); criminal and civil penalties (624.990, 624.992)","title":"ORS 624.041, 624.073, 624.080, 624.096, 624.990 and 624.992: restaurant sanitation rules, exclusion of employees with communicable disease, closure for imminent danger to the public health, and penalties","dateIssued":"2026-09-29","effective":"standing (in force throughout 2020 and 2021)","end":"standing","startDate":"2026-09-29","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","CLOSE","EMP"],"addressees":["specified businesses: restaurants, bed and breakfast facilities and temporary restaurants (and, through ORS 624.310-624.430, food carts and commissaries), their managers and their employees"],"clause":"624.080(2) A person who is affected with a communicable disease... may not work in any restaurant... A restaurant... may not employ a person who is affected with, carries or is suspected of being affected with or carrying any communicable disease. If the... manager suspects that any employee has contracted any disease in a communicable form..., the manager shall notify the Director","enforcement":"Class C misdemeanor for violating ORS 624.010-624.121 or OHA rules under them (624.990(1)); civil penalty (624.992(1)); license revocation or suspension after up to 14 days to correct (624.073(1)); immediate closure for an imminent or present danger (624.073(2)); summary closure of temporary restaurants (624.096).","functions":[],"notes":"Forbade any person with a communicable disease defined by OHA rule (OAR 333-019-0010(1)(b)(A), which named COVID-19 from April 6, 2020) to work in any restaurant, forbade every restaurant to employ a person \u0027affected with, carries or is suspected of being affected with or carrying any communicable disease,\u0027 commanded the manager to notify OHA \u0027immediately\u0027 on suspicion and to post the subsection in every toilet room (624.080(2)), authorized OHA to order the \u0027immediate exclusion of the employee\u0027 and medical examination of the employee and associates (624.080(3)), authorized suspension or revocation of the license for an uncorrected critical violation and \u0027immediate correction... or closure\u0027 for a critical violation that \u0027constitutes an imminent or present danger to the public health\u0027 (624.073(1)-(2)), and required OHA to make sanitation rules on \u0027The cleanliness of the premises\u0027 and \u0027The cleanliness and grooming of food workers\u0027 (624.041(4), (9)).","sourceUrl":"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors624.html","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":258940,"grade":"primary","character":"sanitary_code_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-OR","url":"/library/DUT-OR-007","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-OR-007","citation":"Oregon Legislative Assembly (codified text published by the Office of the Legislative Counsel, 2025 Edition), Statute: ORS chapter 624 (Food Service Facilities), the sanitary code for restaurants: OHA\u0027s duty to make sanitation rules (624.041); license suspension, closure for imminent danger (624.073); diseased persons may not work and may not be employed, and the manager\u0027s duty to notify OHA (624.080); summary closure (624.096); criminal and civil penalties (624.990, 624.992) (standing) (Ex. DUT-OR-007)","stateName":"Oregon","related":["DUT-OR-006","DUT-OR-016","DUT-OR-018","OR-034","DUT-OR-003","DUT-OR-004","DUT-OR-005"]}