California Code
CHAPTER 2 - Functions and Duties of the State Department of Health Services
Section 120145.

120145. The department may quarantine, isolate, inspect, and disinfect persons, animals, houses, rooms, other property, places, cities, or localities, whenever in its judgment the action is necessary to protect or preserve the public health.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)