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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="14-3A-03" title_number="14" title_name="Emergency Management" subtitle_number="3A" subtitle_name="Governor's Health Emergency Powers">
  <level label="a">
    <text>After the Governor issues a proclamation under this subtitle, the Governor may issue the orders authorized in this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Governor may order the Secretary or other designated official to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>seize immediately anything needed to respond to the medical consequences of the catastrophic health emergency; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>work collaboratively, to the extent feasible, with health care providers to designate and gain access to a facility needed to respond to the catastrophic health emergency.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Governor may order the Secretary or other designated official to control, restrict, or regulate the use, sale, dispensing, distribution, or transportation of anything needed to respond to the medical consequences of the catastrophic health emergency by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>rationing or using quotas;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>creating and distributing stockpiles;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>prohibiting shipments;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>setting prices; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>taking other appropriate actions.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If medically necessary and reasonable to treat, prevent, or reduce the spread of the disease or outbreak believed to have been caused by the exposure to a deadly agent, the Governor may order the Secretary or other designated official to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>require individuals to submit to medical examination or testing;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>require individuals to submit to vaccination or medical treatment unless the vaccination or treatment likely will cause serious harm to the individual;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>establish places of treatment, isolation, and quarantine; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>require individuals to go to and remain in places of isolation or quarantine until the Secretary or other designated official determines that the individuals no longer pose a substantial risk of transmitting the disease or condition to the public.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Governor may order any health care provider, who does not voluntarily participate, to participate in disease surveillance, treatment, and suppression efforts or otherwise comply with the directives of the Secretary or other designated official.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Governor may order the evacuation, closing, or decontamination of any facility.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If necessary and reasonable to save lives or prevent exposure to a deadly agent, the Governor may order individuals to remain indoors or refrain from congregating.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
