The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alabama
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Code of Alabama 1975, §§ 22-11A-1, 22-11A-3, 22-11A-6, 22-11A-7 (Acts 1987, No. 87-574)
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Quarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally (every person reported with a notifiable disease); specified reporters (physicians, hospital, nursing-home, laboratory, school and day-care administrators); the State and county health officers as duty-bearers
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Alabama DUT-AL
Operative words
Any person reported as having any of the notifiable diseases or health conditions designated by the State Board of Health shall conform to or obey the instructions or directions given or communicated to him by the county board of health, county health officer or his designee, or State Board of Health, State Health Officer, or his designee, to prevent the spread of the disease.
Penalty
§ 22-11A-6: misdemeanor, $100 to $500, for refusal or willful failure to report; obedience under § 22-11A-7 is enforced through the Board's rules (§ 22-2-14) and the quarantine chapter (Ex. DUT-AL-004)
What it required
Every person reported with a notifiable disease (COVID-19 from March 6, 2020, Ex. AL-081) must obey the health officers' directions to prevent its spread; upon notification the State or county health officer 'shall, at his discretion, isolate or quarantine such person or persons' (§ 22-11A-3); the persons § 22-11A-2 names (physicians, hospital and nursing-home administrators, laboratory directors, school principals, day-care directors) must report cases on pain of a misdemeanor (§ 22-11A-6).
Retrieval noteThis is the statutory footing of the quarantine-of-positives paragraph that ran in every statewide order from April 4, 2020 to May 31, 2021 (Exs. AL-013 to AL-051: every person who tests positive 'shall be quarantined'), and of the workforce absences it compelled. The Board's rules under this article (Ex. DUT-AL-007) define quarantine to include 'the restriction of access to or egress from any building, place, property or appurtenance.'.