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- Jurisdiction
- Washington
- Level
- State
- Authority
- RCW 43.06.220(1)(h); chapters 38.08, 38.52, 43.06 RCW
- Issued
- 2020-12-14 Dec. 14, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-12-14 (immediately) (read as 2020-12-14)
- End
- Until the end of the emergency or until amended or rescinded (rescinded by 20-78.1) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Dec. 14, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- counties and cities party to combined city-county health departments and health districts
- Functions reached
- OTHER (preserves the local health officers who issued and enforced local orders)
- Collection
- Washington WA
Operative words
I hereby prohibit any party to an agreement to operate a combined city and county health department... [from acting] to terminate or commence or advance the legal process for termination of [the agreement or withdrawal from the health district]... unless... the Secretary of Health must determine, in the Secretary's sole discretion, that termination or [withdrawal is appropriate]
Enforcement
Notes
Relevant to preemption: rather than displacing local health authorities, the State froze the structure of local health jurisdictions during the emergency, preserving the local health officers' concurrent authority under RCW 70.05.070.
Retrieval noteBracketed words summarize text between the quoted fragments.