Code of Virginia
Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control
§ 32.1-48.08. Declaration of quarantine

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 12 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.
2004, cc. 773, 1021; 2017, c. 778.

Structure Code of Virginia

Code of Virginia

Title 32.1 - Health

Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control

§ 32.1-35. List and reports of diseases and dangerous microbes and pathogens

§ 32.1-35.1. Information on health care-associated infections

§ 32.1-36. Reports by physicians and laboratory directors

§ 32.1-36.1. Confidentiality of test for human immunodeficiency virus; civil penalty; individual action for damages or penalty

§ 32.1-37. Reports by persons other than physicians

§ 32.1-37.01. Posting of information about cases of communicable disease of public health threat

§ 32.1-37.1. Report of diseases infecting dead human bodies

§ 32.1-37.2. Consent for testing for human immunodeficiency virus; condition on disclosure of test results; counseling required; exceptions

§ 32.1-38. Immunity from liability

§ 32.1-39. Surveillance and investigation

§ 32.1-40. Authority of Commissioner to examine medical records

§ 32.1-41. Anonymity of patients and practitioners to be preserved in use of medical records

§ 32.1-42. Emergency rules and regulations

§ 32.1-42.1. Administration and dispensing of necessary drugs, devices and vaccines during a declared disaster or emergency

§ 32.1-42.2. Declared emergency; priority for personal protective equipment and immunization; funeral service licensees and funeral service establishment employees

§ 32.1-43. Authority of State Health Commissioner to require quarantine, etc.

§ 32.1-44. Isolated or quarantined persons

§ 32.1-45. Expense of treatment

§ 32.1-45.1. Deemed consent to testing and release of test results related to infection with human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses

§ 32.1-45.2. Public safety employees; testing for blood-borne pathogens; procedure available for certain citizens; definitions

§ 32.1-45.3. Repealed

§ 32.1-45.4. Comprehensive harm reduction programs

§ 32.1-46. Immunization of patients against certain diseases

§ 32.1-46.01. Virginia Immunization Information System

§ 32.1-46.02. Administration of influenza vaccine to minors

§ 32.1-46.1. Board to establish protocol for identification of children with elevated blood-lead levels

§ 32.1-46.2. Certain testing or determination of low risk for elevated blood-lead levels required

§ 32.1-47. Exclusion from school of children not immunized

§ 32.1-47.1. Vaccination of children; plan enhancements

§ 32.1-48. Powers of Commissioner in epidemic

§ 32.1-48.001. (For contingent effective date, see Acts 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 472, cl. 2) Real-time information sharing for emergency medical services agencies

§ 32.1-48.01. Definitions

§ 32.1-48.02. Investigations of verified reports or medical evidence; counseling; outpatient and emergency treatment orders; custody upon emergency order; application of article

§ 32.1-48.03. Petition for hearing; temporary detention

§ 32.1-48.04. Isolation hearing; conditions; order for isolation; right to appeal

§ 32.1-48.05. Application of article; determination of exceptional circumstances; regulations; duties of the State Health Commissioner not be delegated

§ 32.1-48.06. Definitions

§ 32.1-48.07. Conditions for invoking the provisions of this article

§ 32.1-48.08. Declaration of quarantine

§ 32.1-48.09. Order of quarantine

§ 32.1-48.010. Appeal of any order of quarantine

§ 32.1-48.011. Isolation may be ordered under certain exceptional circumstances; Commissioner authorized to require hospitalization or other health care

§ 32.1-48.012. Isolation order

§ 32.1-48.013. Appeal of any order of isolation

§ 32.1-48.013:1. Electronic filings as protection from communicable disease

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

§ 32.1-48.015. Authorization to disclose health records

§ 32.1-48.016. Immunity from liability

§ 32.1-48.017. Use of public or private property or facilities

§ 32.1-48.1. Regulation of State Health Commissioner declaring existence of rabies; display and publication

§ 32.1-48.2. Regulation of Commissioner requiring vaccination or inoculation of dogs

§ 32.1-48.3. Regulations of Commissioner covering local ordinances and requirements

§ 32.1-48.4. Commissioner to cooperate with local governing bodies and agencies

§ 32.1-49. Tuberculosis required to be reported

§ 32.1-49.1. Definitions

§ 32.1-50. Examination of persons suspected of having active tuberculosis disease; reporting; report forms; report schedule; laboratory reports and required samples

§ 32.1-50.1. Treatment plan; submission of plan and mediation of disagreements; determination of cure

§ 32.1-50.2. Administration of tuberculin purified protein derivative by nurses; policies and guidelines

§ 32.1-51. Repealed

§ 32.1-53. Facilities and contracts for treatment of tuberculosis patients

§ 32.1-54. Commissioner authorized to charge patients for care

§ 32.1-55. Definition

§ 32.1-55.1. Anonymous testing sites for human immunodeficiency virus

§ 32.1-56. Information to be provided patients

§ 32.1-57. Examination, testing and treatment; failure to comply with order of examination

§ 32.1-58. Persons convicted of certain crimes to be examined, tested and treated

§ 32.1-59. Examination and treatment in certain institutions

§ 32.1-60. Prenatal tests required

§ 32.1-61. Definition

§ 32.1-62. Procedure upon infant's birth

§ 32.1-63. Duty of physician, midwife or nurse noting ophthalmia neonatorum

§ 32.1-64. Duty of Board to provide for treatment

§ 32.1-64.1. Virginia Hearing Loss Identification and Monitoring System

§ 32.1-64.2. Confidentiality of records; publication; Commissioner required to contact parents, physicians, and relevant local early intervention program

§ 32.1-65. Certain newborn screening required

§ 32.1-65.1. Critical congenital heart defect screening test required

§ 32.1-66. Commissioner to notify physicians; reports to Commissioner

§ 32.1-67. Duty of Board for follow-up and referral protocols; regulations

§ 32.1-67.1. Confidentiality of records; prohibition of discrimination

§ 32.1-68. Commissioner to establish screening and treatment program; review by Board; program to include education and post-screening counseling; laboratory tests

§ 32.1-69. Records confidential; disclosure of results of screening

§ 32.1-69.1. Virginia Congenital Anomalies Reporting and Education System

§ 32.1-69.1:1. Dissemination of information regarding birth defects

§ 32.1-69.2. Confidentiality of records; publication; authority of Commissioner to contact parents and physicians

§ 32.1-69.3. Virginia Cord Blood Bank Initiative established

§ 32.1-69.4. Publication of information regarding cord blood education

§ 32.1-70. Information from hospitals, clinics, certain laboratories and physicians supplied to Commissioner; statewide cancer registry

§ 32.1-70.1. Repealed

§ 32.1-70.2. Collection of cancer case information by the Commissioner

§ 32.1-71. Confidential nature of information supplied; publication; reciprocal data-sharing agreements

§ 32.1-71.01. Penalties for unauthorized use of statewide cancer registry

§ 32.1-71.02. Notification of cancer patients of statewide cancer registry reporting

§ 32.1-71.1. Repealed

§ 32.1-72. Repealed

§ 32.1-73. Failure to comply with provisions; grounds for revocation of license or permit

§ 32.1-73.1. Repealed

§ 32.1-73.5. Comprehensive statewide asthma management plan

§ 32.1-73.6. Implementation of state asthma management programs

§ 32.1-73.7. Department to be lead agency for youth suicide prevention

§ 32.1-73.8. Youth health risk behavior survey

§ 32.1-73.9. Advisory Council on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome; membership

§ 32.1-73.10. Advisory Council; report

§ 32.1-73.11. (Continued pursuant to Acts 2022, Sp. S. I, c. 2, item 299 D) Sunset

§ 32.1-73.12. Department to be lead agency for services for substance-exposed infants

§ 32.1-73.13. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; early detection and diagnosis; risk reduction and care planning

§ 32.1-73.14. Rare Disease Council; purpose

§ 32.1-73.15. Powers and duties of the Council

§ 32.1-73.16. Membership; terms; quorum; meetings; staffing

§ 32.1-73.17. Rare Disease Council Fund

§ 32.1-73.18. Renal Disease Council; purpose

§ 32.1-73.19. Powers and duties of the Council

§ 32.1-73.20. Membership; terms; quorum; meetings; staffing