The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Arizona
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Ariz. Const. art. IV; the police power of the State
- Effective
- in force throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3
- 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
- Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- county health departments and public health services districts; persons and owners or occupants of premises within the county
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Arizona DUT-AZ
Operative words
When a county health department... is apprised that infectious or contagious disease exists within its jurisdiction, it shall immediately make an investigation. If the investigation discloses that the disease does exist, the county health department... may adopt quarantine and sanitary measures consistent with department rules and sections 36-788 and 36-789 to prevent the spread of the disease.
Penalty
Violation of a provision of article 4 or of a 'rule, regulation, order, instruction or measure adopted and given the required publicity by a board of health' is a class 3 misdemeanor (A.R.S. § 36-630, Ex. DUT-AZ-004)
What it required
Imposed on every county health department a duty to investigate contagious disease within its jurisdiction and empowered it to adopt quarantine and sanitary measures binding persons and premises in the county.
Retrieval noteWith A.R.S. §§ 36-183.02 (each county 'shall investigate all nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness and make regulations necessary for the public health and safety of the inhabitants'; read on azleg.gov, not separately saved) and 11-251(17), this is the Title 36 authority the Attorney General identified as independent of Title 26, so that Pima County Resolution 2020-96 (face coverings) was 'not likely preempted' by EO 2021-06 (Ex. AZ-046). County and city face-covering instruments of June 2020 to mid-2021 are in the PHX metro file and Exs. AZ-087, AZ-088, AZ-097, AZ-098, AZ-100.