- (a) The Secretary of the Department of Health shall impose such quarantine restrictions and rules upon commerce and travel by railway, common carriers, or any other means, and upon all individuals as in his or her judgment, as the Governor-appointed and Senate-confirmed public health officer for the state, may be necessary to prevent the introduction of communicable disease into the state or from one place to another within the state.
(b) No quarantine rules of commerce or travel shall be instituted or operated by any place, city, town, or county against another place or county in this or in any other state except by authority of the secretary as:
- (1) Delineated by acts of the General Assembly; and
- (2) Codified in Title 20 of the Arkansas Code.
(c) No person shall:
- (1) Interfere with any health authority having jurisdiction; or
- (2) Carry or remove from one (1) building to another, or from one (1) locality to another within or without the state, any patient affected with a communicable disease dangerous to the public health except as provided under the rules governing the transportation of same.