32.1-48.014 - Enforcement of orders of quarantine or isolation; penalties. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-48.014. Enforcement of orders of quarantine or isolation; penalties.

A. Any person who does not comply with a validly issued order of quarantineor order of isolation issued or prepared pursuant to this article shall besubject to the penalties provided in § 32.1-27, including, upon conviction, aClass 1 misdemeanor and payment of civil penalties.

B. Any order of quarantine or isolation shall be enforced by law-enforcementagencies, as directed by the State Health Commissioner. Any enforcementauthority directed to law-enforcement agencies by the Commissioner shallexpressly include, but need not be limited to, the power to detain or arrestany person or persons identified as in violation of any order of quarantineor isolation, or for whom probable cause exists that he may fail or refuse tocomply with any such order.

Any person or persons so detained shall be held in the least restrictiveenvironment that can provide any required health care or other services forsuch person.

C. Every attorney for the Commonwealth shall have the duty to prosecute,without delay, any violation of this chapter in accordance with the penaltiesset forth in § 32.1-27.

D. Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 264 et seq. and 42 C.F.R. Parts 70 and 71, any orderof quarantine or isolation issued by the Director of the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention affecting the Commonwealth or the MetropolitanWashington Airports Authority may be enforced by local law-enforcementofficers or officers of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority withjurisdiction over the facility involved in the quarantine or isolation order.

(2004, cc. 773, 1021; 2007, cc. 699, 783.)