                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AUTHORITY OF STATE HEALTH COMMISSIONER TO REQUIRE QUARANTINE, ETC (§ 32.1-43)

The State Health Commissioner 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 issue orders of isolation pursuant to Article 3.01 (§ 32.1-48.01 et seq.) of
this chapter and orders of quarantine and orders of isolation under exceptional
circumstances involving any communicable disease of public health threat
pursuant to Article 3.02 (§ 32.1-48.05 et seq.) of this chapter.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-8; 1979, c. 711; 1990, c. 958; 2004, cc. 773, 1021.