{"id":"DUT-WI-002","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Wisconsin","state":"WI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Wisconsin Legislature (codified statute; executed by county and municipal local health officers)","authority":"Wis. Stat. ch. 252, Communicable Diseases","instrument":"Wis. Stat. § 252.03 (2019-20), Duties of local health officers","title":"Duties of local health officers: investigate and \u0027promptly take all measures necessary to prevent, suppress and control communicable diseases\u0027 (1); \u0027do what is reasonable and necessary\u0027 and \u0027forbid public gatherings\u0027 (2); department takes charge if local authorities fail to enforce (3)","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","GATH","CLOSE","CAP","MASK","EMP"],"addressees":["local health officers (the duty); persons generally and all businesses within the officer\u0027s territory (the orders issued under it)"],"clause":"(1)... The local health officer shall promptly take all measures necessary to prevent, suppress and control communicable diseases... (2) Local health officers may do what is reasonable and necessary for the prevention and suppression of disease; may forbid public gatherings when deemed necessary to control outbreaks or epidemics and shall advise the department of measures taken.","enforcement":"§ 252.25 (DUT-WI-004): 30 days / $500 for willful violation or obstruction of any county, city or village ordinance or order under the chapter; local ordinance forfeitures (Dane County Ordinance § 46.40; Madison Municipal Ordinance § 7.05(6)) recited in the Forward Dane orders (Ex. MET-MKE-006 § 9) and upheld in Becker (Ex. WI-024).","functions":[],"notes":"Every county and city health officer in Wisconsin was under a mandatory duty (\u0027shall promptly take all measures necessary\u0027) to control COVID-19 and held the power to forbid public gatherings and to issue the orders that bound businesses and persons in Dane County, Milwaukee and every other jurisdiction through Q3 2021.","sourceUrl":"https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/statutes/2019/252.03","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":282542,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-WI","url":"/library/DUT-WI-002","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-WI-002","citation":"Wisconsin Legislature (codified statute; executed by county and municipal local health officers), Wis. Stat. § 252.03 (2019-20), Duties of local health officers (standing) (Ex. DUT-WI-002)","stateName":"Wisconsin","related":["WI-024","DUT-WI-017","WI-023","DUT-WI-004","MET-MKE-006"]}