Florida Administrative Code › 64 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › 64D - Division of Disease Control › Chapter 64D-3 - CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS WHICH MAY SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT PUBLIC HEALTH › Section 64D-3.038 - Quarantine Orders and Requirements

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1)
				Quarantine orders shall be issued by the State Health Officer, or the county
				health department director or administrator, or their designee in writing;
				include an expiration date or specify condition(s) for ending of quarantine;
				and restrict or compel movement and actions by or regarding persons, animals or
				premises consistent with the protection of public health and accepted health
				practices except as otherwise governed by subsection (6).
(2) For the purpose of orders regarding
				quarantine, the term "actions" encompasses isolation, closure of premises,
				testing, destruction, disinfection, treatment, protocols during movement and
				preventive treatment, including immunization.
(3) Subjects or objects of quarantine orders
				shall be accessible at all times to the Department or its designees for
				purposes related to declaration, enforcement, maintenance, modification or
				abolition of such orders. The prohibition shall remain in effect until the
				situation no longer represents a public health hazard as determined by the
				county health department director or administrator or their designated
				representative.
(4) Where
				quarantine is used pursuant to Section 381.00315(1)(b)4., F.S., the subject
				individual may choose isolation in their domicile and such closure as needed to
				ensure that isolation, unless the Department determines that the subject
				individual's domicile is not a practical method of quarantine.
(5) Whenever provisions of this chapter
				require laboratory specimens to be submitted for the identification of specific
				microorganisms in order to determine eligibility for release from quarantine,
				such examination shall be performed in a laboratory approved by the Department
				for performing such tests.
(6) For
				zoonosis control and prevention, any animal determined by the Department to be
				a significant threat to human health shall be humanely euthanized in accordance
				with the American Veterinary Medical Association's 2000 Report of the AVMA
				Panel on Euthanasia, incorporated by reference, available from the Florida
				Department of Health, Bureau of Epidemiology, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin A-12,
				Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1720. Such an order shall be issued in
				writing.
(7) Transportation or
				removal of quarantined persons or animals with written orders issued shall be
				made in accordance with orders issued by the State Health Officer, or the
				county health department director or administrator or their designee.
(8) Quarantine Disinfection Procedures:
				Collection of contaminated matter and quarantine disinfection procedures shall
				be in accordance with orders issued by the State Health Officer, or the county
				health department director or administrator or their designee.
(a) Concurrent disinfection is required of
				infectious or potentially infectious secretions or excretions of any
				quarantined person or animal or of objects contaminated by such secretions
				and/or excretions.
(b) Terminal
				disinfection shall be carried out at the termination of the period of
				quarantine and shall be applied to the quarters
				vacated.