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Ex. DUT-NE-005 Standing duty Primary source read

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-506

Violations; penalty; enforcement

Nebraska Legislature · Nebraska (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Nebraska
Level
State
Authority
Statute; Laws 1919, c. 190, tit. VI, art. II, div. VIII, § 6, as amended
Effective
standing throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3
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
Limitation types
Standing duty
Addressees
  • persons generally; 'any private or public entity'
Character
order penalty
Collection
Standing duties: Nebraska DUT-NE

Operative words

Any person violating any of the provisions of sections 71-501 to 71-505... shall be guilty of a Class V misdemeanor for each offense... The Attorney General or the county attorney may... maintain an action... against any person or any private or public entity for violating sections 71-501 to 71-505... and the rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under such sections.

Penalty

Injunction by the Attorney General or county attorney

What it required

Makes violation of the communicable-disease sections, and of the rules adopted under them (173 NAC 6 and the Directed Health Measures), a criminal offense for each violation and exposes any person or entity to an injunction in the name of the State.

Retrieval note

Text unchanged since 1994. This section is the 'criminal remedies' every DHM threatened; the injunction clause is the 'civil remedies'.