The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Kansas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- K.S.A. 65-159
- 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
- Standing dutyOperating conditionOther
- Addressees
- owners or persons in control of premises
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Kansas DUT-KS
Operative words
The secretary of health and environment and the county or joint boards of health shall have the power and authority to examine into all nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness... [and] to order, in writing, the owner or occupant thereof at his or her own expense to remove the nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness within twenty-four (24) hours
Penalty
fine of $10 to $100 upon conviction, 'and each day's continuance... after the owner or occupant thereof shall have been notified... shall be a separate offense'
What it required
Bound every owner and occupant of private property, including every business premises, to remove at its own expense any 'cause of sickness' the Secretary or county board found and ordered abated, within twenty-four hours or the time ordered; the sanitary-nuisance vehicle available to every county board of health against a premises that would not follow the protocols.
Retrieval noteThe Attorney General's Addendum 3 compares civil enforcement of the mask order to 'civil abatement of a common nuisance' (DUT-KS-019 at 2). Food establishments were separately bound by the licensing and inspection sections K.S.A. 65-689 and 65-691 (no license, no operation; inspection; suspension or revocation for noncompliance) and by the Kansas Food Code adopted by K.A.R. 4-28-8 (employee illness exclusion, handwashing, cleaning and sanitizing); read on ksrevisor.gov and law.cornell.edu Sept. 28, 2026; verified_secondary; not exhibited within the twenty-exhibit limit.