{"id":"DUT-TN-002","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Tennessee","state":"TN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Tennessee General Assembly (codified statute); administered by local (municipal and county) health authorities and the Commissioner of Health","authority":"Police power of the State; Tenn. Code Ann. title 68, ch. 5, pt. 1","instrument":"Tenn. Code Ann. sec. 68-5-104","title":"Quarantine - Penalty for escape (duty of local health authorities to isolate or quarantine the case or premise)","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","CLOSE"],"addressees":["local health authorities (duty); persons isolated or quarantined; owners or persons in control of premises on which a case, cause or source is found"],"clause":"It is the duty of the local health authorities, on receipt of a report of a case, or suspected case, of disease declared to be communicable... to take such steps as may be necessary to isolate or quarantine the case or premise upon which the case, cause or source may be found, as may be required by the rules and regulations of the state department of health.","enforcement":"Class B misdemeanor for willful escape from isolation or quarantine (up to six months and $500 under sec. 40-35-111 as summarized on the page)","functions":[],"notes":"Imposed on every local health authority a duty, on report of a communicable disease, to confirm the diagnosis, find the source, and isolate or quarantine the case or the premises on which the case, cause or source is found; directed the commissioner to promulgate rules \u0027necessary to prevent the spread of contagious or communicable diseases\u0027 (subsection (a)(2)); made willful escape from isolation or quarantine a Class B misdemeanor (subsection (b)); required delivery of the law to the head of a quarantined household (subsection (c)).","sourceUrl":"https://www.lawserver.com/law/state/tennessee/tn-code/tennessee_code_68-5-104","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":455054,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-TN","url":"/library/DUT-TN-002","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-TN-002","citation":"Tennessee General Assembly (codified statute); administered by local (municipal and county) health authorities and the Commissioner of Health, Tenn. Code Ann. sec. 68-5-104 (standing) (Ex. DUT-TN-002)","stateName":"Tennessee","related":["DUT-TN-005","DUT-TN-001"]}