SECTION 97.9. Quarantine of Specific Premises and Application of Control Measures to Private and Common Carriers

(a) A health authority may declare a house, building, apartment, room, or place within the health authority's jurisdiction to be a place of quarantine whenever a case of communicable disease occurs therein, and, in the health authority's opinion, it is necessary to do so in order to protect the public health. No person shall leave or enter the place during the period of quarantine except with specific permission of the health authority.

(b) The department or health authority may investigate and apply control measures to private and common carriers and private conveyances as authorized in Disease Prevention and Control Act (Act), Health and Safety Code, §81.086, when they have reasonable cause to believe that:

(1) it has departed from or traveled through an area infected or contaminated with a communicable disease;

(2) it is or may be infected or contaminated with a communicable disease;

(3) an individual on board has been exposed to or is the carrier of a communicable disease; or

(4) it has cargo or an object on board that is or may be infected or contaminated with a communicable disease.

Source Note: The provisions of this §97.9 adopted to be effective March 16, 1994, 19 TexReg 1453; amended to be effective June 5, 2007, 32 TexReg 2997