The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Tex. Health & Safety Code § 81.087
- Issued
- 1989-09-01 Sept. 1, 1989
- Effective
- standing (read as 1989-09-01)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 1, 1989 (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
- persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises; owners and operators of carriers and conveyances
- Character
- order penalty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Texas DUT-TX
Operative words
A person commits an offense if the person knowingly refuses to perform or allow the performance of certain control measures ordered by a health authority or the department under Sections 81.083-81.086. (b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
Penalty
Class B misdemeanor: fine to $2,000, confinement to 180 days, or both (Penal Code § 12.22, Ex. DUT-TX-019)
What it required
Obedience to every control-measure order of the department or a health authority directed at an individual, a group, property or a carrier, on pain of a Class B misdemeanor conviction.
Retrieval noteCompanion offenses in the same exhibit: § 81.068 (refusing entry or inspection), § 81.088 (removal of quarantine devices), § 81.089 (transportation of infected persons or property).