The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Level
- State
- Authority
- KRS 195.040, 211.090; relates to KRS 211.180, 214.010, 214.020
- 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
- Business closureQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- owners or persons in control of premises subject to inspection and control measures; persons under quarantine or isolation; physicians and institutions
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Kentucky DUT-KY
Operative words
Local health departments or the Cabinet for Human Resources shall:... (b) Establish and maintain quarantine, isolation or other measures as required by law or by administrative regulations of the Cabinet for Human Resources relating to communicable disease control;... (f) Introduce such other measures... as are necessary because of widespread infection or threatened epidemic.
Penalty
KRS 211.990(2); KRS 212.990
What it required
Required (shall) local health departments and the Cabinet to inspect 'any premises that they have reasonable grounds to believe are in a condition conducive to the spread of any communicable disease' (Section 1(1)), to establish and maintain quarantine and isolation, to instruct affected persons in disinfection, to verify 'that control measures are being properly observed during the period of communicability' and to introduce further measures in a threatened epidemic (Section 1(2)); made isolation of the patient the duty of every attending physician (Section 2) and an isolation room the duty of every institution caring for the ill (Section 3).
Retrieval noteRead with 902 KAR 2:050 (Ex. DUT-KY-006): together they are the standing communicable-disease control code that the 2020 Healthy at Home and Healthy at Work orders and the 2020-2021 COVID-19 emergency regulations operated within.