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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77938</law_id><section_number>3.2-6006</section_number><catch_line>Quarantine of individuals</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="V">Domestic Animals</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="60">Livestock and Poultry</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Contagious and Infectious Diseases</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any individual exposed to contagious or infectious <span class="dictionary">animal</span> diseases that, in the reasonable <span class="dictionary">opinion</span> of the <span class="dictionary">State Veterinarian</span>, may be transmitted by such individual to <span class="dictionary">animals</span>, may be quarantined when, in the reasonable <span class="dictionary">opinion</span> of the <span class="dictionary">State Veterinarian</span>, such quarantine will prevent the spread of such contagious or infectious diseases among <span class="dictionary">livestock</span> or <span class="dictionary">poultry</span>. The provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Appeal of any order of quarantine" href="/32.1-48.010/">32.1-48.010</a> shall apply, <span class="dictionary">mutatis mutandis</span>, to <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> any <span class="dictionary">order</span> of quarantine issued pursuant to this section. For purposes of this section only, significant health threat shall include threat of contagious or infectious diseases to <span class="dictionary">livestock</span> or <span class="dictionary">poultry</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 3-571; 1966, c. 702, &#xA7; 3.1-729; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
