The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Washington
- Level
- State
- Authority
- RCW 43.20.050; RCW 70.05.050, 70.05.060; RCW 70.24.130
- Issued
- 2022-02-25 Feb. 25, 2022
- Effective
- standing (read as 2022-02-25)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Feb. 25, 2022 (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 closureQuarantine and isolationSupply chainStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; owners or persons in control of premises and facilities subject to inspection, closure or quarantine
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Washington DUT-WA
Operative words
Local health officers shall... institute disease control and contamination control measures, including... isolation, quarantine,... condemnation of food supplies, and inspection and closure of facilities [WAC 246-100-036(3)]; Any person who fails or refuses to obey any lawful order issued by any local health officer is deemed guilty of a misdemeanor [WAC 246-100-070(3)]
Penalty
Misdemeanor punishable under RCW 70.05.120 (WAC 246-100-070(2), (3)); orders 'must be enforced by all police officers, sheriffs, constables' (WAC 246-100-070(1))
What it required
Directs health officers to institute control measures including isolation, quarantine, condemnation of food supplies and inspection and closure of facilities; provides the emergency-detention and court procedure for isolation and quarantine (WAC 246-100-040); makes every health officer order enforceable by all police officers and sheriffs and its violation a misdemeanor (WAC 246-100-070(1)-(3)).
Retrieval noteCurrent codification (post-2022 amendments). The sections quoted (036(3), 040, 070) carried the same numbers and the same operative language in June 2020, when Secretary of Health Order 20-03 recited 'WAC 246-100-036' as authority and 'WAC 246-100-070(3)' as penalty (Ex. WA-037). A period capture of the chapter page was not available in the Wayback CDX index.