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Ex. DUT-NH-020 Standing duty Primary source read

He-P 301.05 (Restriction and Control Measures for Isolation and Quarantine for Specific Diseases), within He-P 300

Communicable Disease rules: exclusion and restriction duties

Department of Health and Human Services (administrative rules adopted under RSA 141-C:6) · New Hampshire (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
New Hampshire
Level
State
Authority
RSA 141-C:6; RSA 141-C:11 to 141-C:15; N.H. Code Admin. Rules He-P 300 (Communicable Disease)
Issued
2016-11-03 Nov. 3, 2016
Effective
standing (read as 2016-11-03)
End
standing (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Standing since Nov. 3, 2016 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
Addressees
  • employers and admitting officials in health care, food service, child care and congregate settings; persons generally as cases and contacts
Character
statutory duty
Collection
Standing duties: New Hampshire DUT-NH

Operative words

(r) For any communicable disease that poses a threat to the public's health... all cases, suspect cases, and close contacts of cases or suspect cases of a communicable disease who work in sensitive occupations, such as healthcare, food service, and child care, or who are otherwise located in a congregate setting, shall be excluded or restricted from certain activities

Penalty

RSA 141-C:21 (violation of a rule adopted under the chapter: misdemeanor; felony if any other person); RSA 141-C:23 injunction

What it required

For named diseases, 'Admitting officials and employers shall exclude' cases, suspect cases and contacts from food handling, child care, direct patient care and work places for stated periods; for any other communicable disease threatening the public's health, cases and close contacts in sensitive occupations or congregate settings 'shall be excluded or restricted... in accordance with RSA 141-C:4... based on the best available guidance and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or other established sources' (para. (r)); individuals with acute gastrointestinal illness are excluded from patient care, child care and food duties for 48 hours after symptoms resolve (para. (s)).

Retrieval note

Rule text read in the Wayback Machine's raw capture of April 22, 2020 and rendered to PDF from that capture. Paragraph (r) is the standing duty that the Universal Guidelines' screening and send-home provisions (Ex. NH-045 paras. 1-3) restated for COVID-19.

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