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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63430</law_id><section_number>32.1-48.014</section_number><catch_line>Enforcement of orders of quarantine or isolation; penalties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>15.2-1704</reference></referred_to_by><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="3.02">Quarantine and Isolation of Persons With Communicable Diseases of Public Health Threat</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">person</span> who does not comply with a validly issued <span class="dictionary">order</span> of <span class="dictionary">quarantine</span> or <span class="dictionary">order</span> of <span class="dictionary">isolation</span> issued or prepared pursuant to this article shall be subject to the penalties provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Penalties, injunctions, civil penalties and charges for violations" href="/32.1-27/">32.1-27</a>, including, upon <span class="dictionary">conviction</span>, a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span> and payment of civil penalties. <a id="paragraph-231149" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-48.014/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Any <span class="dictionary">order</span> of <span class="dictionary">quarantine</span> or <span class="dictionary">isolation</span> shall be enforced by <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement agencies, as directed by the State Health <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. Any enforcement authority directed to <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement agencies by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall expressly include, but need not be limited to, the power to <span class="dictionary">detain</span> or <span class="dictionary">arrest</span> any <span class="dictionary">person or persons</span> identified as in violation of any <span class="dictionary">order</span> of <span class="dictionary">quarantine</span> or <span class="dictionary">isolation</span>, or for whom <span class="dictionary">probable cause</span> exists that he may fail or refuse to comply with any such <span class="dictionary">order</span>.
			Any <span class="dictionary">person or persons</span> so detained shall be held in the least restrictive environment that can provide any required health care or other services for such person. <a id="paragraph-231150" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-48.014/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> Every attorney for the Commonwealth shall have the duty to <span class="dictionary">prosecute</span>, without delay, any violation of this chapter in accordance with the penalties set forth in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Penalties, injunctions, civil penalties and charges for violations" href="/32.1-27/">32.1-27</a>. <a id="paragraph-231151" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-48.014/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. &#xA7; 264 et seq. and 42 C.F.R. Parts 70 and 71, any <span class="dictionary">order</span> of <span class="dictionary">quarantine</span> or <span class="dictionary">isolation</span> issued by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention affecting the Commonwealth or the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority may be enforced by local <span class="dictionary">law</span>-enforcement officers or officers of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority with <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> over the facility involved in the <span class="dictionary">quarantine</span> or <span class="dictionary">isolation</span> <span class="dictionary">order</span>. <a id="paragraph-231152" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-48.014/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2004, cc. 773, 1021; 2007, cc. 699, 783.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
