2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 19 - Health
Part I - General Provisions
Chapter 1 - Communicable Diseases Generally
§ 2. Regulation of communicable diseases; quarantine

Universal Citation: V.I. Code tit. 19, § 2 (2019)
  • The regulations authorized in section 1 of this title may provide—
    • (1) quarantine or isolation of the patient, of any persons who have been exposed to the patient and therefore liable to have contracted the disease, or of any carrier of the disease;

    • (2) placarding by a suitable sign intended to be recognizable by the public, the premises, house, tenement or room in which the person ill of, or exposed to, the disease may be;

    • (3) any other matter relating to the care of and due to the illness of the patient from such a communicable disease while the patient is living and ill from the disease, or to the disposal of his body when dead;

    • (4) removal of the patient from, and his return to, school; and

    • (5) any other matter or procedure of interest in the protection of the public.

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