(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;
(B) sanitation laws;
(C) quarantine rules; and
(D) vital statistics collections.