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Appropriate precautions will vary according to the disease.\n\t\t“At-risk behavior” means engaging in acts which a person, who has been informed that he is infected with a communicable disease of public health significance, knows may infect other persons without taking appropriate precautions to protect the health of the other persons.\n\t\t“Communicable disease of public health significance” means an illness of public health significance, as determined by the State Health Commissioner, caused by a specific or suspected infectious agent that may be transmitted directly or indirectly from one individual to another.\n\t\t“Communicable disease of public health significance” shall include, but may not be limited to, infections caused by human immunodeficiency viruses, blood-borne pathogens, and tubercle bacillus. The State Health Commissioner may determine that diseases caused by other pathogens constitute communicable diseases of public health significance. Further, “a communicable disease of public health significance” shall become a “communicable disease of public health threat” upon the finding of the State Health Commissioner of exceptional circumstances pursuant to Article 3.02 (\u00a7 32.1-48.05 et seq.) of this chapter.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":265171,"text":"As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Appropriate precautions” means those specific measures which have been demonstrated by current scientific evidence to assist in preventing transmission of a communicable disease of public health significance. Appropriate precautions will vary according to the disease.\n\t\t“At-risk behavior” means engaging in acts which a person, who has been informed that he is infected with a communicable disease of public health significance, knows may infect other persons without taking appropriate precautions to protect the health of the other persons.\n\t\t“Communicable disease of public health significance” means an illness of public health significance, as determined by the State Health Commissioner, caused by a specific or suspected infectious agent that may be transmitted directly or indirectly from one individual to another.\n\t\t“Communicable disease of public health significance” shall include, but may not be limited to, infections caused by human immunodeficiency viruses, blood-borne pathogens, and tubercle bacillus. The State Health Commissioner may determine that diseases caused by other pathogens constitute communicable diseases of public health significance. 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This law was first created in 1990. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 958 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 1990 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 2004, chapters 773<\/a> and 1021<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":65793,"section_number":"32.1-43","catch_line":"Authority of State Health Commissioner to require quarantine, etc","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-43\/"},{"id":62960,"section_number":"32.1-44","catch_line":"Isolated or quarantined persons","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-44\/"},{"id":73376,"section_number":"32.1-45","catch_line":"Expense of treatment","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-45\/"},{"id":56897,"section_number":"32.1-48.011","catch_line":"Isolation may be ordered under certain exceptional circumstances; Commissioner authorized to require hospitalization or other health care","order_by":null,"url":"\/32.1-48.011\/"},{"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\/"}],"refers_to":[{"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":202031,"object_type":"law","relational_id":73733,"identifier":"32.1-48.01","token":"32.1\/2\/3.01\/32.1-48.01","url":"\/32.1-48.01\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/32.1-48.01\/","token":"32.1\/2\/3.01\/32.1-48.01","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 32.1-48.01","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Appropriate precautions<\/span>” means those specific measures which have been demonstrated by current scientific evidence<\/span> to assist in preventing transmission of a communicable disease of public health significance<\/span>. Appropriate precautions<\/span> will vary according to the disease.\n\t\t“At-risk behavior<\/span>” means engaging in acts which a person<\/span>, who has been informed that he is infected with a communicable disease of public health significance<\/span>, knows may infect other persons<\/span> without taking appropriate precautions<\/span> to protect the health of the other persons<\/span>.\n\t\t“Communicable disease of public health significance<\/span>” means an illness of public health significance, as determined by the State Health Commissioner<\/span>, caused by a specific or suspected infectious agent that may be transmitted directly or indirectly from one individual to another.\n\t\t“Communicable disease of public health significance<\/span>” shall include, but may not be limited to, infections caused by human immunodeficiency viruses, blood-borne pathogens, and tubercle bacillus. The State Health Commissioner<\/span> may determine that diseases caused by other pathogens constitute communicable diseases of public health significance. Further, “a communicable disease of public health significance<\/span>” shall become a “communicable disease of public health threat” upon the finding<\/span> of the State Health Commissioner<\/span> of exceptional circumstances pursuant to Article 3.02 (\u00a7 32.1-48.05<\/a> et seq.) of this chapter.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 32.1-48.01)\n\nAs used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Appropriate precautions” means those specific measures which have\nbeen demonstrated by current scientific evidence to assist in preventing\ntransmission of a communicable disease of public health significance.\nAppropriate precautions will vary according to the disease.\n\t\t“At-risk behavior” means engaging in acts which a person, who has\nbeen informed that he is infected with a communicable disease of public health\nsignificance, knows may infect other persons without taking appropriate\nprecautions to protect the health of the other persons.\n\t\t“Communicable disease of public health significance” means an\nillness of public health significance, as determined by the State Health\nCommissioner, caused by a specific or suspected infectious agent that may be\ntransmitted directly or indirectly from one individual to another.\n\t\t“Communicable disease of public health significance” shall\ninclude, but may not be limited to, infections caused by human immunodeficiency\nviruses, blood-borne pathogens, and tubercle bacillus. The State Health\nCommissioner may determine that diseases caused by other pathogens constitute\ncommunicable diseases of public health significance. Further, “a\ncommunicable disease of public health significance” shall become a\n“communicable disease of public health threat” upon the finding of\nthe State Health Commissioner of exceptional circumstances pursuant to Article\n3.02 (\u00a7 32.1-48.05 et seq.) of this chapter.\n\nHISTORY: 1990, c. 958; 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}}