Section 693.90  Quarantine

a)         When a Local Health Authority, Designated Agency or the Department, where applicable, knows or has reason to know, because of medical or epidemiological information, that the Public's Health and Welfare are significantly endangered by a place within its jurisdiction where there is a significant amount of sexual activity or a significant amount of intravenous drug needle-sharing activity likely to spread a sexually transmissible disease, it shall initiate and document all reasonable efforts, such as correspondence and/or personal meetings to discuss the problem and request assistance from the owner to eliminate the problem to obtain the voluntary cooperation of the owner of such a place to correct the problem in such a manner that a significant danger to the public's health no longer exists.  A significant amount of sexual activity or needle contact shall be deemed to exist when such acts occur repeatedly despite reasonable efforts to correct the situation.  (Section 7(a) of the Act).

b)         A "significant danger to the public's health," for purposes of this Section, means that the continued operation or existence of the place in question would result in irreparable injury to individuals engaging in sexual or needle-sharing activity at that place.

c)         If such attempts at voluntary cooperation have failed to the extent that a significant danger to the public's health still exists at a place where there is a significant amount of sexual activity likely to spread a sexually transmissible disease, the Local Health Authority or Designated Agency may request the Department to promptly investigate to determine whether adequate grounds exist for seeking a court order, pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Act, for quarantining such place and making it off limits to the public until such time as the condition can be corrected so that a significant danger to the public's health no longer exists.  The Department may also seek such an order on its own initiative in areas not served by Local Health Authorities or Designated Agencies (Section 7 (b) of the Act).

d)         If such attempts at voluntary cooperation have failed to the extent that a significant danger to the public's health still exists at a place where there is a significant amount of intravenous drug needle-sharing activity likely to spread a sexually transmissible disease, the Local Health Authority or Designated Agency may request the Department to promptly investigate to determine whether adequate grounds exist for quarantining such place and making it off limits to the public until such time as the condition can be corrected so that a significant danger to the public's health no longer exists.  The Department may issue a quarantine order in such a case pursuant to its supreme authority in matters of quarantine.  (Section 22 of "AN ACT in relation to public health" (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 111½, par. 22.))