This regulation enabled the state commissioner of health to "issue and/or ... direct the local health authority to issue isolation and/or quarantine orders ... to all such persons as the State Commissioner of Health shall determine appropriate."
Those detained at home or in a New York concentration camp without trial or proof of infection were to be monitored "to ensure compliance with the order."
In April 2022, state Senator George Borrello (R), Assemblyman Mike Lawler (R), and Assemblyman Chris Tague (R) joined pro-freedom citizens' group Uniting NYS in suing Gov. Kathy Hochul, Department of Health Commissioner Bassett, the Department of Health, and the Public Health and Health Planning Council over the New York's forced "Isolation and Quarantine" regulation.
Tague said, "This policy's aim to forcibly isolate law-abiding citizens is reminiscent of actions taken by some of the ugliest tyrannical regimes history has ever known. It has no place standing as law here in New York, let alone anywhere in the United States."