32.1-43 - Authority of State Health Commissioner to require quarantine, etc. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-43. Authority of State Health Commissioner to require quarantine, etc.

The State Health Commissioner shall have the authority to require quarantine,isolation, immunization, decontamination, or treatment of any individual orgroup of individuals when he determines any such measure to be necessary tocontrol the spread of any disease of public health importance and theauthority to issue orders of isolation pursuant to Article 3.01 (§ 32.1-48.01et seq.) of this chapter and orders of quarantine and orders of isolationunder exceptional circumstances involving any communicable disease of publichealth threat pursuant to Article 3.02 (§ 32.1-48.05 et seq.) of this chapter.

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