The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Tennessee
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Tenn. Code Ann. title 68, ch. 2, pt. 6; subsection (b) as substituted by 2021 Tenn. Pub. Acts ch. 550, sec. 3 (Ex. TN-065)
- Issued
- 2021-05-26 May 26, 2021
- Effective
- standing (read as 2021-05-26)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since May 26, 2021 (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
- Standing duty
- Addressees
- county health directors and officers (duty); persons and premises subject to the Department's regulations (through enforcement)
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Tennessee DUT-TN
Operative words
(b) It is the county health director's duty to enforce the regulations of the state department of health. (c) The commissioner may appoint a county health officer responsible for providing medical direction, including medical enforcement actions.
Penalty
Enforcement of the Department's regulations, including the control measures of Rule 1200-14-01-.15 (Ex. DUT-TN-005)
What it required
Required every county to maintain a health department whose director must enforce the Commissioner's rules and regulations, and provided for a physician county health officer with 'medical enforcement actions' and the order powers of sec. 68-2-609.
Retrieval noteText read in the saved exhibit (LawServer mirror, 'current as of 2024'). Pub. Ch. 550, sec. 2 struck 'and the county board of health' from subsection (a)(2) and sec. 3 substituted subsection (b) (Ex. TN-065); before May 26, 2021 the director's enforcement duty extended to the county board's rules as well. Subsection (g) (SARS-CoV-2 exception to the religious-exemption clause) postdates the six quarters and is not relied on.