{"id":"DUT-VT-007","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Vermont","state":"VT","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Vermont General Assembly (Title 18, chapter 1, Administration)","authority":"police power of the State","instrument":"18 V.S.A. sec. 2 (Definitions), subdivisions (4), (9), (10), (12)","title":"Definitions: \u0027Health officer\u0027, \u0027Public health hazard\u0027, \u0027Public health risk\u0027, \u0027Significant public health risk\u0027","dateIssued":"2023-06-08","effective":"standing; in force throughout March 2020 to September 2021","end":"standing","startDate":"2023-06-08","endDate":"","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY"],"addressees":["persons generally; employers; owners or persons in control of premises"],"clause":"\u0022Public health hazard\u0022 means the potential harm to the public health by virtue of any condition or any biological, chemical, or physical agent.... \u0022Significant public health risk\u0022 means a public health risk of such magnitude that the Commissioner or a local health officer has reason to believe that it must be mitigated.","enforcement":"none in itself; operative through 18 V.S.A. secs. 126, 127, 130, 131, 602a, 613","functions":[],"notes":"Supplies the triggers of the health-order duty: a \u0027condition or any biological, chemical, or physical agent\u0027 with \u0027potential harm to the public health\u0027 is a public health hazard, and a risk the Commissioner or a local health officer \u0027has reason to believe... must be mitigated\u0027 is a significant public health risk, against which sections 126 and 127 orders run and sections 130 and 131 penalties attach; a communicable disease circulating in a workplace or place of assemblage is within the definition on its face. Character as recorded: statutory_framework (definition).","sourceUrl":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/18/001/00002","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":46825,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_framework","description":"","collection":"DUT-VT","url":"/library/DUT-VT-007","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-VT-007","citation":"Vermont General Assembly (Title 18, chapter 1, Administration), 18 V.S.A. sec. 2 (Definitions), subdivisions (4), (9), (10), (12) (standing) (Ex. DUT-VT-007)","stateName":"Vermont","related":[]}