The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Kansas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- K.S.A. 65-126
- Issued
- 2021-01-01 Jan. 1, 2021
- Effective
- standing throughout 2020-2021 (read as 2021-01-01)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Jan. 1, 2021 (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
- Travel and quarantineQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises within a quarantined area
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Kansas DUT-KS
Operative words
Whenever the county or joint board of health or the local health officer neglects to properly isolate and quarantine infectious or contagious diseases and persons afflicted with or exposed to such diseases as may be necessary to prevent the spread thereof, the secretary of health and environment may quarantine any area in which any of these diseases may show a tendency to become epidemic.
Penalty
K.S.A. 65-127: $25 to $100 for each offense (DUT-KS-004); K.S.A. 65-129: class C misdemeanor for evading or breaking quarantine (DUT-KS-006)
What it required
Every person and business within an area the Secretary quarantines is bound by the area quarantine; the section is the Kansas area-quarantine power that stands behind the Secretary's statewide travel and exposure quarantine mandate (KS-053 to KS-057). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteUnamended since 1976; the text in force in 2020-2021 is the text on the page.