The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- North Carolina
- Level
- State
- Authority
- G.S. 130A-134, 130A-135, 130A-139, 130A-141
- Issued
- 2020-02-17 Feb. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-02-17
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Feb. 17, 2020 (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
- Health care ordersQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- physicians; persons in charge of medical facilities and laboratories; school principals and child-care operators; the local health directors who receive the reports
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: North Carolina DUT-NC
Operative words
(51) novel coronavirus infection causing death -- 24 hours; (52) novel coronavirus infection -- immediately.
Penalty
Misdemeanor under G.S. 130A-25(a) for violation of the Chapter or the Commission's rules
What it required
Physicians, laboratories, persons in charge of medical facilities, school principals and child-care operators must report every case of novel coronavirus infection immediately (G.S. 130A-135 to 130A-139), which brought each case within the local health director's duty to investigate and to give the Commission's control measures (G.S. 130A-144(a), (e)) and within the isolation and quarantine authority of G.S. 130A-145.
Retrieval noteCurrent text (last amended Nov. 1, 2024); the history note dates the COVID-19 entries to the emergency amendment of Feb. 17, 2020. Reportability is the trigger that made every workplace case a public-health matter subject to control measures under 41A.0201 (Ex. DUT-NC-007).