Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 121.024. Duties

(1) necessary to implement and enforce a law to protect the public health; or

(2) prescribed by the department.

(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: