{"id":"DUT-TX-004","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Texas","state":"TX","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code ch. 81, Subchapter E)","authority":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.084(c), (d), (d-1), (e), (f), (g)","instrument":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.084","title":"Application of Control Measures to Property","dateIssued":"1989-09-01","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"1989-09-01","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["CLOSE","DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["owners or persons in control of premises (land, structures and objects, including every business premises)"],"clause":"In a public health disaster, the department or health authority by written order may require a person who owns or controls property to impose control measures that are technically feasible to disinfect or decontaminate the property or... may order the person who owns or controls the property... to securely seal off an infected or contaminated structure","enforcement":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.087 (Class B misdemeanor); injunction under § 81.084(f); costs and bond under § 81.084(g)","functions":[],"notes":"The owner or person in control of any premises, object or structure that the department or a health authority had reasonable cause to believe was infected or contaminated was bound to quarantine, disinfect, decontaminate or seal off the property on written order, to pay \u0027all expenses of implementing control measures\u0027 (§ 81.084(g)), and was subject to injunctive relief on refusal (§ 81.084(e)-(f)); in a public health disaster the notice requirement of subsection (b) did not apply. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","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_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-TX","url":"/library/DUT-TX-004","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-TX-004","citation":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code ch. 81, Subchapter E), Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 81.084 (standing) (Ex. DUT-TX-004)","stateName":"Texas","related":["DUT-TX-008","DUT-TX-009","DUT-TX-003","DUT-TX-005","DUT-TX-006"]}