The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- North Carolina
- Level
- State
- Authority
- G.S. ch. 130A, Article 2 (Local Administration), Part 1
- Effective
- standing throughout 2020-2021
- 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
- local health directors (the officers who directed isolation, quarantine and abatement); persons and premises in the county as subjects of that authority
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: North Carolina DUT-NC
Operative words
(b) A local health director shall have the following powers and duties:... (3) To investigate the causes of infectious, communicable and other diseases; (4) To exercise quarantine authority and isolation authority pursuant to G.S. 130A-145;... (11) To abate public health nuisances and imminent hazards pursuant to G.S. 130A-19 and G.S. 130A-20.
Penalty
Enforced through G.S. 130A-18 (injunction), 130A-20 (abatement and lien) and 130A-25 (misdemeanor) (Ex. DUT-NC-002)
What it required
Each of the State's local health directors was under a statutory duty to investigate communicable disease, to exercise isolation and quarantine authority over infected and exposed persons and to abate imminent hazards on premises in the county, so that every workplace case and exposure reported under 41A.0101 was met by a county officer bound to act.
Retrieval noteUnamended since 1999; the text is the text in force in every quarter.