Termination of Declaration

Termination of Declaration. (a) Executive order. The governor shall terminate the declaration of a state of public health emergency by executive order upon finding that the occurrence of an illness or health condition that caused the emergency no longer poses a high probability of a large number of incidents of serious permanent or long-term disability in the affected population, or a significant risk of substantial future harm to a large number of people in the affected population. (b) Automatic termination. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act, the declaration of a state of public health emergency shall be terminated automatically after thirty days unless renewed by the governor under the same standards and procedures set forth in this Act. Any such renewal shall also be terminated automatically after thirty days unless renewed by the governor under the same standards and procedures set forth in this Act. Source: PL 13-63, § 12, modified. Commission Comment: Several conforming changes and correction of a manifest typographical error (inserted “in” after “provision” in subsection (b)) were made in the above section by the Commission pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(a), (e), and (g). PL 13-63 was enacted on February 10, 2004 and contained a short title, findings, purpose, severability, and savings clause provisions. See the comment to 3 CMC § 2181 regarding PL 13-63.