The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Tennessee
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Tenn. Code Ann. title 68, ch. 5, pt. 1
- Effective
- standing
- 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
- Standing duty
- Addressees
- municipal and county health authorities (duty); persons and premises subject to the Department's rules
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Tennessee DUT-TN
Operative words
It is the duty of all municipal or county health authorities, without delay, upon receiving the notice pursuant to sec. 68-5-102 immediately to proceed to carry out such rules and regulations as the department of health may prescribe, having for their object the prevention and restrictions of such disease or diseases.
Penalty
Departmental enforcement where a local authority fails (Rule 1200-14-01-.27, Ex. DUT-TN-005)
What it required
Bound every municipal and county health authority to carry out the Department of Health's disease-prevention rules immediately on notice of a communicable disease, which is the mechanism by which the Department's control measures (Ex. DUT-TN-005) reached every county.
Retrieval noteText read in the saved exhibit (LawServer mirror, 'current as of 2024'). Companion sec. 68-5-101 imposes on 'the head of the household, or any other person in the household possessing knowledge of the facts' a duty to notify the health authorities of a communicable disease (read on the mirror; not saved).