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.