                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

QUARANTINE OF INDIVIDUALS (§ 3.2-6006)

Any individual exposed to contagious or infectious animal diseases that, in the
reasonable opinion of the State Veterinarian, may be transmitted by such
individual to animals, may be quarantined when, in the reasonable opinion of the
State Veterinarian, such quarantine will prevent the spread of such contagious
or infectious diseases among livestock or poultry. The provisions of §
32.1-48.010 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to appeal any order 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
livestock or poultry.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 3-571; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-729; 2008, c. 860.