                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS OF QUARANTINE OR ISOLATION; PENALTIES (§ 32.1-48.014)

A. Any person who does not comply with a validly issued order of quarantine or
order of isolation issued or prepared pursuant to this article shall be subject
to the penalties provided in &#xA7; 32.1-27, including, upon conviction, a Class
1 misdemeanor and payment of civil penalties.

B. Any order of quarantine or isolation shall be enforced by law-enforcement
agencies, as directed by the State Health Commissioner. Any enforcement
authority directed to law-enforcement agencies by the Commissioner shall
expressly include, but need not be limited to, the power to detain or arrest any
person or persons identified as in violation of any order of quarantine or
isolation, or for whom probable cause exists that he may fail or refuse to
comply with any such order.
			Any person or persons so detained shall be held in the least restrictive
environment that can provide any required health care or other services for such
person.

C. Every attorney for the Commonwealth shall have the duty to prosecute, without
delay, any violation of this chapter in accordance with the penalties set forth
in &#xA7; 32.1-27.

D. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. &#xA7; 264 et seq. and 42 C.F.R. Parts 70 and 71, any
order of quarantine or isolation 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 law-enforcement officers
or officers of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority with jurisdiction
over the facility involved in the quarantine or isolation order.

HISTORY: 2004, cc. 773, 1021; 2007, cc. 699, 783.