CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONDITIONS FOR INVOKING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE (§ 32.1-48.07)

A. Prior to issuing any order of quarantine or any order of isolation pursuant
to this article, the State Health Commissioner shall ensure that:

   1.  Any quarantine or isolation is implemented in the least restrictive
   environment necessary to contain the communicable disease of public health
   threat;

   2.  Any quarantined persons shall be confined separately from any isolated
   persons, to the maximum extent practicable;

   3.  Upon determining that any quarantined person can be reasonably believed to
   have become infected with a communicable disease of public health threat, the
   infected person shall be promptly removed from quarantine and placed in
   isolation;

   4.  The health and disease status of any quarantined and isolated persons
   shall be monitored regularly to determine if such persons require continued
   quarantine or isolation;

   5.  Any quarantined or isolated persons shall be immediately released from
   quarantine or isolation upon a determination by the State Health Commissioner
   that such quarantined or isolated persons pose no risk of transmitting the
   communicable disease of public health threat to other persons; and

   6.  The site of any quarantine or isolation shall be, to the extent
   practicable, safely and hygienically maintained with adequate food, clothing,
   health care, and other essential needs made available to the persons who are
   subject to any order of quarantine or isolation.

B. All persons subject to an order of quarantine or an order of isolation shall
comply with the order and the conditions governing their quarantine or
isolation.

C. In the case of any person who has been quarantined or isolated in a location
other than a medical care facility, the State Health Commissioner shall
authorize health care professionals to enter the premises of quarantine or
isolation. No person, other than such authorized health care professionals,
shall enter the premises of quarantine or isolation, unless authorized by the
State Health Commissioner. Upon determining that any person, who has entered the
premises of quarantine or isolation, poses a threat to public health and safety,
the State Health Commissioner may quarantine or isolate such person.

HISTORY: 2004, cc. 773, 1021.