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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Minnesota
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Minn. Stat. § 144.12 (Regulation, enforcement, licenses, fees); rulemaking under Minn. Stat. ch. 14
- 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
- persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises ('places'); specified businesses (hotels, resorts, lodging, camps under cl. (12))
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Minnesota DUT-MN
Operative words
The commissioner may control, by rule, by requiring the taking out of licenses or permits, or by other appropriate means, any of the following matters:... (7) the treatment, in hospitals and elsewhere, of persons suffering from communicable diseases,... the disinfection and quarantine of persons and places in case of those diseases, and the reporting of sicknesses and deaths from them
Penalty
Rules and orders adopted under § 144.12 are enforceable under § 144.99 (correction orders, administrative penalty orders up to $10,000 per violator, injunction, 72-hour cease-and-desist orders, license action) (DUT-MN-004); § 144.99 subd. 1 lists § 144.12 subd. 1 paragraphs (1), (2), (5), (6), (10), (12)-(15) and 'all rules, orders... issued by the department... for the preservation of public health'.
What it required
It vests the Commissioner of Health with standing power to control, by rule, permit or other appropriate means, the disinfection and quarantine of persons and places in cases of communicable disease and 'the prevention and control of communicable diseases' at tourist camps, hotels and resorts (cl. (12)), and it is the statutory authority recited for the Food Code and the communicable-disease rules. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteOfficial Publication of the State of Minnesota, Revisor of Statutes, 2020 edition. Clause (12) authorizes rules for 'the general sanitation of tourist camps, summer hotels, and resorts in respect to... the prevention and control of communicable diseases'. Minn. Stat. § 144.05 subd. 1(3) (read, not saved) adds the commissioner's general duty to 'establish and enforce health standards for the protection and the promotion of the public's health'.