Tex. Health & Safety Code Section 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 department.

(c)

The duties of a health authority include:

(1)

establishing, maintaining, and enforcing quarantine in the health authority’s jurisdiction;

(2)

aiding the department 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 department in the manner and at the times prescribed by the department;

(4)

reporting to the department on any subject on which it is proper for the department to direct that a report be made; and

(5)

aiding the department 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, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0370, eff. April 2, 2015.

Source: Section 121.024 — Duties, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.­121.­htm#121.­024 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).

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