The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Michigan
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Public Health Code Part 22
- Issued
- 1978-09-30 Sept. 30, 1978
- Effective
- 1978-09-30
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 30, 1978 (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 duty
- Addressees
- local health departments (as enforcing authorities); persons and businesses subject to the delegated enforcement
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Michigan DUT-MI
Operative words
the department may authorize a local health department to exercise a power or function of the department where not otherwise prohibited by law or rule.
Penalty
Enforcement of MCL 333.2261 and 333.2262 penalties by local health departments; MCL 333.2461 local civil penalties
What it required
Supplied the delegation under which every MDHHS gathering and face-covering order provided that 'local health departments are authorized to carry out and enforce the terms of this order' (Exs. MI-050 sec. 6(b); MI-060 sec. 8(b)), placing 45 county and district health departments behind the orders' civil and criminal penalties; subsection (2) makes the local health department 'the primary organization responsible for the organization, coordination, and delivery' of department programs in its area. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).