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This law was first created in 1979. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 711 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1979 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2002, chapter 768<\/a>; in 2004, chapters 773<\/a> and 1021<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":74231,"section_number":"32.1-35","catch_line":"List and reports of diseases and dangerous microbes and pathogens","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-35\/"},{"id":72908,"section_number":"32.1-48.05","catch_line":"Application of article; determination of exceptional circumstances; regulations; duties of the State Health Commissioner not be delegated","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-48.05\/"}],"permalink":{"id":201953,"object_type":"law","relational_id":76165,"identifier":"32.1-42","token":"32.1\/2\/3\/32.1-42","url":"\/32.1-42\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/32.1-42\/","token":"32.1\/2\/3\/32.1-42","dublin_core":{"Title":"Emergency rules and regulations","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 32.1-42","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Board<\/span> of Health may promulgate regulations and orders<\/span> to meet any emergency or to prevent a potential emergency caused by a disease dangerous to public health, including, but not limited to, procedures specifically responding to any disease listed pursuant to \u00a7 32.1-35<\/a> that is determined to be caused by an agent or substance used as a weapon or any communicable disease of public health threat that is involved in an order<\/span> of quarantine or an order<\/span> of isolation pursuant to Article 3.02 (\u00a7 32.1-48.05<\/a> et seq.) of this chapter.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nEMERGENCY RULES AND REGULATIONS (\u00a7 32.1-42)\n\nThe Board of Health may promulgate regulations and orders to meet any emergency\nor to prevent a potential emergency caused by a disease dangerous to public\nhealth, including, but not limited to, procedures specifically responding to any\ndisease listed pursuant to \u00a7 32.1-35 that is determined to be caused by an\nagent or substance used as a weapon or any communicable disease of public health\nthreat that is involved in an order of quarantine or an order of isolation\npursuant to Article 3.02 (\u00a7 32.1-48.05 et seq.) of this chapter.\n\nHISTORY: 1979, c. 711; 2002, c. 768; 2004, cc. 773, 1021.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}