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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76165</law_id><section_number>32.1-42</section_number><catch_line>Emergency rules and regulations</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="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Disease Prevention and Control</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Disease Control Measures</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Health may promulgate regulations and <span class="dictionary">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 &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="List and reports of diseases and dangerous microbes and pathogens" href="/32.1-35/">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 <span class="dictionary">order</span> of quarantine or an <span class="dictionary">order</span> of isolation pursuant to Article 3.02 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Application of article; determination of exceptional circumstances; regulations; duties of the State Health Commissioner not be delegated" href="/32.1-48.05/">32.1-48.05</a> et seq.) of this chapter.</p></section></text><history>1979, c. 711; 2002, c. 768; 2004, cc. 773, 1021.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
