{"id":"DUT-TX-002","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Texas","state":"TX","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code ch. 81, Subchapter E, Control)","authority":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code §§ 81.081, 81.082; definitions in § 81.003(2) (\u0027health authority\u0027) and § 81.003(7) (\u0027public health disaster\u0027)","instrument":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code §§ 81.081 and 81.082","title":"Department\u0027s Duty; Administration of Control Measures","dateIssued":"1989-09-01","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"1989-09-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","CLOSE","EMP"],"addressees":["the department and health authorities as duty-bearers; persons generally and owners or persons in control of places and objects as the subjects of control measures"],"clause":"The department shall impose control measures to prevent the spread of disease in the exercise of its power to protect the public health.... A health authority has supervisory authority and control over the administration of communicable disease control measures in the health authority\u0027s jurisdiction... The control measures may be imposed on an individual, animal, place, or object","enforcement":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.087 (Class B misdemeanor; Ex. DUT-TX-006); § 81.085(h) (third-degree felony during area quarantine; Ex. DUT-TX-005); Penal Code §§ 12.22, 12.34 (Ex. DUT-TX-019)","functions":[],"notes":"The Department of State Health Services was under a mandatory duty (\u0027shall impose control measures\u0027) and every local health authority held supervisory authority to impose the listed control measures (immunization, detention, restriction, disinfection, decontamination, isolation, quarantine, disinfestation, chemoprophylaxis, preventive therapy, prevention and education) on any individual, place or object in its jurisdiction, with a public health disaster (a gubernatorial disaster declaration plus the Commissioner\u0027s determination of an immediate threat from a communicable disease) enlarging those powers for 30 days, renewable once by the Commissioner.","sourceUrl":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.81.htm","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20201206082504/https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.81.htm","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":694750,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-TX","url":"/library/DUT-TX-002","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-TX-002","citation":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code ch. 81, Subchapter E, Control), Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code §§ 81.081 and 81.082 (standing) (Ex. DUT-TX-002)","stateName":"Texas","related":["TX-001","DUT-TX-008","DUT-TX-006","DUT-TX-005","DUT-TX-019"]}