The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Utah
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Police power of the State delegated to the thirteen local health departments; Utah Code Title 26A, Chapter 1
- Issued
- 2021-05-05 May 5, 2021
- Effective
- standing (read as 2021-05-05)
- End
- standing (this version superseded May 5, 2021; S.B. 195 added the order-of-constraint limits recorded in Ex. UT-041 and H.B. 294 added section 26A-1-130, Ex. UT-040) (read as 2021-05-05)
- In force
- Standing since May 5, 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
- Business closureGathering capQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; owners or persons in charge of premises; public places and gatherings within each local health department's jurisdiction
- Character
- statutory authority
- Collection
- Standing duties: Utah DUT-UT
Operative words
A local health department may:... (b) establish, maintain, and enforce isolation and quarantine, and exercise physical control over property and over individuals as the local health department finds necessary for the protection of the public health;... (e) close theaters, schools, and other public places and prohibit gatherings of people when necessary to protect the public health
Penalty
Utah Code section 26A-1-123 (Ex. DUT-UT-005): class B misdemeanor, class A on a subsequent violation within two years; Utah Code section 26-23-6 (Ex. DUT-UT-003)
What it required
Every local health department could enforce the State's public health and sanitation laws, impose isolation and quarantine with physical control over property and individuals, close public places and prohibit gatherings, and abate 'sources of filth and infectious and communicable diseases' and bill 'the owner or other person in charge of the premises' for the cost (subsection (1)(f)), the powers under which the Weber-Morgan, Wasatch, Davis, Salt Lake County and Southeast Utah health departments issued the orders in Exs. UT-054 to UT-056 and the 2021 school orders. Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).
Retrieval noteOfficial versioned PDF (header: 'Superseded 5/5/2021'). Subsection (1)(b) is the authority the order-of-restriction statute cross-references (section 26-6b-3(1)(a), Ex. DUT-UT-006).