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139A.4 TYPE AND LENGTH OF ISOLATION OR QUARANTINE.
1. The type and length of isolation or quarantine imposed for a
specific communicable disease shall be in accordance with rules
adopted by the department.
2. The department and the local boards may impose and enforce
isolation and quarantine restrictions.
3. The department shall adopt rules governing terminal cleaning.
4. The department and local boards may impose and enforce area
quarantine restrictions according to rules adopted by the department.
Area quarantine shall be imposed by the least restrictive means
necessary to prevent or contain the spread of the suspected or
confirmed quarantinable disease or suspected or known hazardous or
toxic agent. Section History: Recent Form
2000 Acts, ch 1066, §4; 2006 Acts, ch 1079, §5
