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.
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.
*Original authority: 192.020, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1951, 2004.
**Pursuant to Executive Order 21-07, 19 CSR 20-20.050 was suspended from March 24, 2020 through
May 1, 2021.