Whenever the county or joint board of health or the local health officer neglects to properly isolate and quarantine infectious or contagious diseases and persons afflicted with or exposed to such diseases as may be necessary to prevent the spread thereof, the secretary of health and environment may quarantine any area in which any of these diseases may show a tendency to become epidemic.
K.S.A. 65-126
Quarantine of city, township or county
L. 1901, ch. 285, § 10; R.S. 1923, 65-126; L. 1953, ch. 283, § 5; L. 1974, ch. 352, § 10; L. 1976, ch. 262, § 5; July 1.
Official source: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Kansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.