Chap. 421.—An ACT to amend an act providing for the appointment of a State
board of health and of local boards of health, defining the duties and powers
and compensation thereof, and of their members, officers, and agents, in connec-
tion with the preservation of public health, and prescribing penalties against
witnesses failing to obey subpenas issued by said State board of health, or any
authorized member thereof, for refusing to testify or otherwise acting in con-
tempt of said board, or its duly authorized members, approved March 7, 1900,
to amend said act so as to prevent any person infected with a dangerous, con-
tagious, or infectious disease from going about, and to prevent the spread of
such disease, and prescribing penalties therefor.

Approved March 29, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the act ap-
proved March seventh, nineteen hundred, entitled “an act providing for
the appointment of a State board of health and of local boards of health,
defining the duties and powers and compensation thereof,” and so forth,
be amended and re-enacted so as to make section thirteen thereof read as
follows:

§ 13. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be unlawful for any person who knows himself to be infected with any
dangerous, contagious, or infectious disease, or who has recently had such
disease, and has not cleansed his person and clothes so as to be free from
the infection—

First. To go into the company of any one who is liable to take the
infection without warning such person of his being so infected.

Second. To go into any church or other house used for public wor-
ship or for school purposes, or to go into any mine, mill, factory, shop,
store, warehouse, depot, train, ship, hotel, restaurant, or dwelling belong-
ing to any other person, or to go into any courthouse, jail, asylum, or
almshouse, or to go into any like house, place, or building.

Third. That it shall be unlawful for any person who has been volun-
tarily exposed to small-pox or any other dangerous, contagious, or infec-
tious disease to come into this State, or to go from place to place therein,
within a period of fifteen days from such exposure, unless such person
shall have a certificate from a competent and reputable practicing physi-
cian stating that no danger of communication of disease by such exposed
person exists. |

Upon conviction of the person so offending he shall be punished as fol-
lows: For violation of the first sub-division of this section he shall be
fined not less than ten and not more than fifty dollars; for the violation
of the second sub-division thereof he shall be fined not less than twenty-
five dollars and not more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment
in the county jail not exceeding six months, or both; for the violation of
the third sub-division thereof he shall be fined not less than twenty-five
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or confinement in the jail not
more than six months.

When the State board of health or the county or city boards of health
have established quarantine lines or ordered compulsory vaccination in
any infected boundary, it shall be unlawful for any person to violate
either of said regulations, or to aid or encourage another to violate either,
and upon conviction thereof he shall be fined not exceeding one hundred
dollars and confined in the county jail not exceeding six months.

And that it be further enacted that section thirteen be amended and re-
enacted so as to be numbered fourteen; and that section fourteen be
amended and re-enacted so as to be numbered fifteen: provided, this act
shall not apply to practicing physicians or undertakers when in the dis-
charge of the duties of their respective professions or callings.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.