(a) Any person who makes affidavit before a quarantine officer or guard, engaged in enforcing quarantine for the protection of a place which said person wishes to enter, and who furnishes such other evidence as may be prescribed by the State Board of Health that he has not, since the appearance of a quarantinable disease then existing, been in any place against which quarantine has been legally proclaimed shall be permitted to enter, or remain in, the place to which he desires to go. Any person who has been in a place then under quarantine, by the authority of the state or by that of a county, city or town with the approval of the State Board of Health, and who has since complied with the requirements as to detention and disinfection, one or both, prescribed or approved by the State Board of Health and who shall make affidavit thereto and furnish such other evidence thereof as said board may prescribe or demand shall be permitted to enter or remain in any place in this state.
(b) Any quarantine officer or guard or other person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $100.00 for each offense.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.
Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.
Chapter 12 - Quarantine Laws and Regulations.
Section 22-12-1 - Enforcement of Quarantine.
Section 22-12-2 - State Quarantine Authority Paramount.
Section 22-12-3 - Exercise of Rights and Duties by Public Health Committees and Officers.
Section 22-12-4 - Proclamation of Quarantine by Governor.
Section 22-12-5 - Amendment of Regulations and Changes of Territory.
Section 22-12-6 - Investigations; Quarantine Pending Investigations.
Section 22-12-7 - Refusal of Investigation by Authorities Outside State.
Section 22-12-9 - Duty of Vessel Master Ordered to Perform Quarantine.
Section 22-12-10 - Unauthorized Removal of Vessel From Quarantine.
Section 22-12-11 - Violation of Regulations as to Arriving Vessels.
Section 22-12-12 - Proclamation of Quarantine in County, City, or Town.
Section 22-12-13 - Enforcement of Local Quarantine.
Section 22-12-14 - Quarantine of Infected Portions of County - Establishment.
Section 22-12-15 - Quarantine of Infected Portions of County - Enforcement.
Section 22-12-16 - Expense of Enforcing Local Quarantine.
Section 22-12-17 - Report of Local Quarantine to State.
Section 22-12-18 - Quarantine of Person Coming From Infected Place.
Section 22-12-19 - Establishment of Place of Detention.
Section 22-12-20 - Attempted Escapes and Escapes From Detention.
Section 22-12-22 - Transportation of Person or Thing in Violation of Quarantine.
Section 22-12-23 - Free Rides on Public Transports for Quarantine Officers.
Section 22-12-24 - Passing of Quarantine Lines by State Quarantine Officers and Guards.
Section 22-12-26 - Arrests Without Warrants.
Section 22-12-29 - Affidavits by Persons Desiring to Enter or Remain in Certain Places.