(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;(C) quarantine rules; and(D) vital statistics collections.Tex. Health and Safety Code § 121.024
Amended by Acts 2015, Texas Acts of the 84th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 1,Sec. 3.0370, eff. 4/2/2015. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1989.