19 CSR 20-20.050 - Quarantine or Isolation Practices and Closing of Schools and Places of Public and Private Assembly

PURPOSE: This rule provides for the isolation or quarantine of persons and animals with a communicable disease and their contacts; it also authorizes the closing of schools and places of public and private assembly.

(1) The local health authority, the director of the Department of Health and Senior Services or the director's designated representative shall require isolation of a patient or animal with a communicable disease, quarantine of contacts, concurrent and terminal disinfection, or modified forms of these procedures necessary for the protection of the public health. The isolation of a patient, animal or contact shall be carried out according to the methods of control in 19 CSR 2020.040(1).

(2) No person or animal infected with or suspected of having a communicable disease listed in 19 CSR 20-20.020(1)-(3) or any contact of a disease subject to quarantine or isolation shall move or be moved from one (1) health jurisdiction to another, unless necessary for medical care, without notice to and consent from the local health authority, the director of the Department of Health and Senior Services or the director's designated representative. If a person is moved for the reason of medical care, the health authority who ordered the isolation or quarantine shall be notified within seventy-two (72) hours.

(3) This section was terminated as a result of Shannon Robinson, et al. v. Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (cause number 20AC-CCO515) effective December 22, 2021.

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19 CSR 20-20.050

AUTHORITY: section 192.020, RSMo Supp. 2006.* This rule was previously filed as 13 CSR 50-101.061. Original rule filed Dec. 11, 1981, effective May 13, 1982. Emergency amendment filed June 15, 2007, effective July 6, 2007, expired Jan. 1, 2008. Amended: Filed June 15, 2007, effective Jan. 30, 2008. ** Section (3) terminated as a result of Shannon Robinson, et al. v. Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services effective December 22, 2021.

AUTHORITY: section 192.020, RSMo Supp. 2006.* This rule was previously filed as 13 CSR 50-101.061. Original rule filed Dec. 11, 1981, effective May 13, 1982. Emergency amendment filed June 15, 2007, effective July 6, 2007, expired Jan. 1, 2008. Amended: Filed June 15, 2007, effective Jan. 30, 2008.