{"id":"DUT-TX-007","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Texas","state":"TX","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code ch. 121, Local Public Health Reorganization Act)","authority":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 121.024","instrument":"Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 121.024","title":"Duties (of a health authority)","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"],"addressees":["health authorities (as the local officers whose control-measure orders bound persons and premises under ch. 81)"],"clause":"A health authority is a state officer when performing duties prescribed by state law. (b) A health authority shall perform each duty that is: (1) necessary to implement and enforce a law to protect the public health; or (2) prescribed by the department. (c) The duties of a health authority include: (1) establishing, maintaining, and enforcing quarantine in the health authority\u0027s jurisdiction","enforcement":"Enforced through Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code §§ 81.085(h) and 81.087 (Exs. DUT-TX-005, DUT-TX-006) and ch. 341 (Ex. DUT-TX-017)","functions":[],"notes":"Every county and municipal health authority (a physician appointed under ch. 121) was a state officer under a mandatory duty to implement and enforce the public health laws, to establish, maintain and enforce quarantine, and to aid the department in \u0027local quarantine, inspection, disease prevention and suppression... and general sanitation,\u0027 which is the office that issued the Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Travis and El Paso County health orders in the metro layer.","sourceUrl":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.121.htm","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":621711,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-TX","url":"/library/DUT-TX-007","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-TX-007","citation":"Texas Legislature (Health and Safety Code ch. 121, Local Public Health Reorganization Act), Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code § 121.024 (standing) (Ex. DUT-TX-007)","stateName":"Texas","related":["DUT-TX-005","DUT-TX-006","DUT-TX-017"]}