A statewide elected official or the state health officer may not mandate an individual in this state use a face mask, face shield, or other face covering. This section applies, notwithstanding authority granted under other provisions of law, including section 23-01-05 and chapter 37-17.1.
23-07-13. Contagious or infectious diseases - Local board may establish temporary hospital. Each local board of health may provide such temporary hospital or place of reception for persons afflicted with any contagious or infectious disease as it judges best for their accommodation and the safety of the inhabitants. It may provide a means of transportation to such hospital for persons suffering from any such disease. All such hospitals, and all private houses or other places in which exists any contagious or infectious disease, during the
existence of such disease, are under the control and subject to the regulations of the local board of health.
23-07-14. Contagious or infectious diseases - Local board may destroy or disinfect infected clothing. Any local board of health may cause to be destroyed any bed, bedding, clothing, carpets, or other articles which have been exposed to infection from a contagious or infectious disease and may allow reasonable compensation for the same. The board also may provide a proper place with all necessary apparatus and attendants for the disinfection of such articles and may cause all such articles to be conveyed to such place to be disinfected.
23-07-15. Removal of individual with reportable disease or condition - Removal of body of individual who died of reportable disease or condition - Prohibited - Declaration of emergency or disaster - Rulemaking authority. 1. Unless the person has a permit from the local board of health or department of health and human services, a person may not remove or cause to be removed from without this state into this state, from one building to another within this state, or from or to any railroad car or motor vehicle, an individual with a reportable disease or condition, or the body of an individual who died of a reportable disease or condition. 2. If the governor declares an emergency or a disaster based on an epidemic under chapter 37-17.1, the department of health and human services shall consider whether to adopt rules or emergency rules to notify emergency medical services personnel of the presence of a reportable disease or condition and any person taking possession of a dead body of a post-mortem communicable disease. Notwithstanding state laws to the contrary, rules adopted under this section may provide for the disclosure of personally identifiable information.
23-07-16. Child having contagious or infectious disease prohibited from attending school - Exception. Except as provided by section 23-07-16.1, no principal, superintendent, or teacher of any school, and no parent or guardian of any minor child, may permit any child having any significant contagious or infectious disease, or any child residing in any house in which any such disease exists or has recently existed, to attend any public or private school until permitted to do so under the regulations of the local board of health.