Quarantine of person coming from infected place.

Any person, coming into a city or town by land from a place infected with a contagious disease, may be compelled to perform quarantine by the health officer and restrained from traveling until discharged; and any person thus restrained, traveling before he is discharged must, on conviction, be fined not less than $100.00.

(Code 1852, §967; Code 1867, §1218; Code 1876, §4226; Code 1886, §4091; Code 1896, §5348; Code 1907, §7061; Code 1923, §4363; Code 1940, T. 22, §150.)