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Texas Health & Safety Code - Section 121.024. Duties

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§ 121.024. DUTIES.  (a) A health authority is a state 
officer when performing duties prescribed by state law.
	(b)  A health authority shall perform each duty that is:                       
		(1)  necessary to implement and enforce a law to 
protect the public health;  or
		(2)  prescribed by the board.                                                 
	(c)  The duties of a health authority include:                                 
		(1)  establishing, maintaining, and enforcing 
quarantine in the health authority's jurisdiction; 
		(2)  aiding the board in relation to local quarantine, 
inspection, disease prevention and suppression, birth and death 
statistics, and general sanitation in the health authority's 
jurisdiction; 
		(3)  reporting the presence of contagious, infectious, 
and dangerous epidemic diseases in the health authority's 
jurisdiction to the board in the manner and at the times prescribed 
by the board; 
		(4)  reporting to the board on any subject on which it 
is proper for the board to direct that a report be made;  and
		(5)  aiding the board in the enforcement of the 
following in the health authority's jurisdiction:
			(A)  proper rules, requirements, and ordinances;                             
			(B)  sanitation laws;                                                        
			(C)  quarantine rules;  and                                                  
			(D)  vital statistics collections.                                           

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.                    

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