CODE OF VIRGINIA

DECLARATION OF QUARANTINE (§ 32.1-48.08)

A. The State Health Commissioner may declare a quarantine of any person or
persons or any affected area after he finds that the quarantine is the necessary
means to contain a communicable disease of public health threat as defined in §
32.1-48.06 to which such person or persons or the people of an affected area
have been or may have been exposed and thus may become infected.

B. The State Health Commissioner shall record his findings and any information
on which he has relied in making the finding required for quarantine pursuant to
subsection A. The State Health Commissioner’s record of findings
concerning any communicable disease of public health threat shall be
confidential and shall not be disclosed in accordance with subdivision 17 of §
2.2-3705.5.

C. The State Health Commissioner may order the quarantined person or persons to
remain in their residences, to remain in another place where they are present,
or to report to a place or places designated by the State Health Commissioner
for the duration of their quarantine. An electronic device may be used to
enforce any such quarantine. The Commissioner’s order of quarantine shall
be for a duration consistent with the known incubation period for such disease
or, if the incubation period is unknown, for a period anticipated as being
consistent with the incubation period for other similar infectious agents.

HISTORY: 2004, cc. 773, 1021.