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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62960</law_id><section_number>32.1-44</section_number><catch_line>Isolated or quarantined persons</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 provisions of this chapter shall be construed to allow any isolated or quarantined <span class="dictionary">person</span> to choose his own treatment, whenever practicable and in the best interest of the health and safety of the isolated or quarantined <span class="dictionary">person</span> and the public; however, the conditions of any <span class="dictionary">order</span> of isolation issued 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 involving a communicable disease of public health significance and any <span class="dictionary">order</span> of quarantine or <span class="dictionary">order</span> of isolation 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 shall remain in effect until the <span class="dictionary">person</span> or <span class="dictionary">persons</span> subject to such <span class="dictionary">order</span> of quarantine or <span class="dictionary">order</span> of isolation shall no longer constitute a threat to other <span class="dictionary">persons</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-13; 1979, c. 711; 1990, c. 958; 2004, cc. 773, 1021.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
