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Ex. DUT-VA-003 Standing duty Primary source read

12VAC5-90, Regulations for Disease Reporting and Control (full chapter), including 12VAC5-90-80 (Lists of diseases that shall be reported), 12VAC5-90-90 (Those required to report), 12VAC5-90-100 (Methods), 12VAC5-90-103 (Isolation for communicable disease of public health threat) and 12VAC5-90-107 (Quarantine)

Virginia Administrative Code, Title 12, Agency 5, Chapter 90, Regulations for Disease Reporting and Control

State Board of Health (Virginia Department of Health) · Virginia (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Virginia
Level
State
Authority
12VAC5-90-10 et seq.
Issued
1993-07-01 July 1, 1993
Effective
standing throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3 (text as captured July 3, 2022) (read as 2022-07-03)
End
standing
In force
Standing since July 3, 2022 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Health care ordersQuarantine and isolationStanding dutyOther
Addressees
  • physicians, laboratories, medical care facilities and other listed reporters; persons and affected areas under orders of isolation or quarantine; food employees and persons in charge of food establishments
Character
sanitary code duty
Collection
Standing duties: Virginia DUT-VA

Operative words

The board and commissioner shall use appropriate disease control measures to manage the diseases listed in 12VAC5-90-80 A... The board and commissioner reserve the right to use any legal means to control any disease which is a threat to the public health.

Penalty

Va. Code section 32.1-27 (Class 1 misdemeanor; injunction; civil penalty) for violation of a Board regulation or Commissioner order; law-enforcement detention under 12VAC5-90-103 F and 12VAC5-90-107

What it required

Physicians, laboratory directors, medical care facilities and the other persons listed in 12VAC5-90-90 to report the diseases on the 12VAC5-90-80 list, which includes 'Coronavirus infection, severe'; the Board and Commissioner to apply disease control measures, and the Commissioner to isolate (12VAC5-90-103) or quarantine (12VAC5-90-107) individuals and, where the Governor has declared a state of emergency, affected areas; food employees to notify the person in charge of a food establishment when diagnosed with a transmissible disease (12VAC5-90-90 K, cross-referencing 12VAC5-421-80).

Retrieval note

The saved capture (July 3, 2022) lists 'Coronavirus infection, severe (e.g., SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV)' as a reportable disease and does not name COVID-19; the current LIS text (read live Sept. 29, 2026, not saved) adds an express duty to 'report coronavirus disease 2019, also known as COVID-19' and a laboratory duty to report 'a positive SARS-CoV-2 test within three days' (verified_secondary as to the current text). 12VAC5-90-103 A: 'The commissioner, in the commissioner's sole discretion, may invoke the provisions of Article 3.02' and 'may also order the isolation of an affected area if... the Governor has declared a state of emergency'; 12VAC5-90-107 the same for quarantine. The reporting duties fall on the health professions and facilities, not on employers generally; the regulation is recorded here for the control-measure powers and the affected-area provisions the Governor's orders sat on.

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