The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Utah
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Police power of the State; Utah Code Title 26, Chapter 6
- Issued
- 2019-05-14 May 14, 2019
- Effective
- 2019-05-14
- End
- standing (this version superseded May 5, 2021; the May 5, 2021 version, read on the Legislature's site, adds the words 'Subject to Subsection (3) and the restrictions in this title' and otherwise carries subsection (1) unchanged) (read as 2021-05-05)
- In force
- Standing since May 14, 2019 (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
- Quarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; the Department as ordering authority
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Utah DUT-UT
Operative words
The department has authority to investigate and control the causes of epidemic infections and communicable disease, and shall provide for the detection, reporting, prevention, and control of communicable diseases and epidemic infections or any other health hazard which may affect the public health.
Penalty
Utah Code section 26-23-6 (Ex. DUT-UT-003): class B misdemeanor; civil penalty up to $10,000 per violation
What it required
The Department 'shall provide for the... prevention, and control of communicable diseases' and holds the authority to control their causes, the second statutory authority recited in every State Public Health Order in the library. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteOfficial versioned PDF (header: 'Effective 5/14/2019 Superseded 5/5/2021'). Subsection (2) concerns sexually transmitted disease information and is not relied on. The Communicable Disease Control Act's termination statute for COVID-19 orders, section 26-6-33 (H.B. 294, 2021), is already in the library as Ex. UT-040.