The department may quarantine, isolate, inspect, and disinfect persons, animals, houses, rooms, other property, places, cities, or localities, whenever in its judgment the action is necessary to protect or preserve the public health.
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 120145
Functions and Duties of the State Department of Health Services
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7
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