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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65793</law_id><section_number>32.1-43</section_number><catch_line>Authority of State Health Commissioner to require quarantine, etc</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 State Health <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall have the authority to require quarantine, isolation, immunization, decontamination, or treatment of any individual or group of individuals when he determines any such measure to be necessary to control the spread of any disease of public health importance and the authority to <span class="dictionary">issue</span> <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of isolation pursuant to Article 3.01 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/32.1-48.01/">32.1-48.01</a> et seq.) of this chapter and <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of quarantine and <span class="dictionary">orders</span> of isolation under exceptional circumstances involving any communicable disease of public health threat 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>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-8; 1979, c. 711; 1990, c. 958; 2004, cc. 773, 1021.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
