Statute: ORS chapter 431 (State and Local Administration and Enforcement of Health Laws), sections 431.110, 431.150, 431.155, 431.157 and 431.413: the Oregon Health Authority's supervision of 'all matters relating to the preservation of life and health,' its duty and the local public health administrators' duty to enforce every public health law, and their power to restrain violations by injunction

Injunction and other mandatory process in circuit court (431.155, 431.157); prosecution by the district attorney on OHA's request (431.150(4)); the section's remedies are 'in addition to and not in substitution of any other enforcement provisions' (431.155(2)).

Placed the Oregon Health Authority in 'direct supervision of all matters relating to the preservation of life and health of the people of this state' with a duty to 'Conduct sanitary surveys about and investigations on the causes and prevention of diseases' (431.110(1), (5)), commanded OHA and every local public health administrator and local public health authority to 'administer and enforce' every public health law (431.150(1)-(2); 431.413(1)(a)), required district attorneys to prosecute on request and the Attorney General to assist (431.150(4)-(5)), and authorized OHA and every local administrator to restrain any person 'engaged or about to engage in any acts or practices that constitute a violation of any statute relating to public health... or any rule or order issued thereunder' by injunction 'or by other processes, mandatory or otherwise' (431.155(1), 431.157). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).