The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Colorado
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Colo. Const. art. V; C.R.S. title 25, art. 1.5 (Department of Public Health and Environment powers)
- Issued
- 2018-10-01 Oct. 1, 2018
- Effective
- In force throughout 2020 Q2 - 2021 Q3 (read as 2018-10-01)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Oct. 1, 2018 (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
- Business closureGathering capQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises (property subject to physical control)
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Colorado DUT-CO
Operative words
To investigate and control the causes of epidemic and communicable diseases affecting the public health.... To establish, maintain, and enforce isolation and quarantine, and, in pursuance thereof and for this purpose only, to exercise such physical control over property and the persons of the people within this state as the department may find necessary for the protection of the public health
Penalty
Through § 25-1-114(1)(a), (4): misdemeanor; fine up to $1,000 and/or county jail up to one year (2018 text in force during the period)
What it required
Empowered CDPHE to control epidemic and communicable disease, to establish and enforce isolation and quarantine with physical control over property and persons, and to abate sources of disease; every CDPHE COVID-19 order recites this section as its authority, and disobedience is made unlawful by § 25-1-114(1)(a). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval notePin: pp. 79-80 of 1,048 (section heading p. 79; paragraph (c) p. 80). The exhibit is the OLLS official 2018 edition of Title 25; paragraphs (1)(a)(I), (c) and (d) read identically in the current code (FindLaw, current as of Jan. 1, 2025), so the quoted text is the text in force in 2020-2021. Cited as authority in Ex. CO-013, CO-016, CO-020, CO-036, CO-041, CO-051, CO-053, CO-054, CO-055, CO-091, CO-093. The same file carries DUT-CO-002 to DUT-CO-005 and DUT-CO-015.