Code of Virginia
Title 32.1 - Health

Chapter 1 - Administration Generally

§ 32.1-1. References to former sections, articles and chapters of Title 32 and other titles - Whenever any of the conditions, requirements, provisions or contents of...

§ 32.1-2. Finding and purpose - The General Assembly finds that the protection, improvement and preservation...

§ 32.1-3. Definitions - As used in this title unless the context requires otherwise...

§ 32.1-3.1. Certified mail; subsequent mail or notices may be sent by regular mail - Whenever in this title the Board, the Commissioner, or the...

§ 32.1-4. Sovereign immunity - Nothing contained in this title shall be construed to be...

§ 32.1-5. Appointment of members; terms and vacancies - There shall be a State Board of Health which shall...

§ 32.1-6. Meetings and chairman - The Board shall meet annually in the City of Richmond...

§ 32.1-7. Bylaws - The Board may adopt bylaws for its operation. Code 1950,...

§ 32.1-8. Quorum - Six members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for...

§ 32.1-9. Secretary - The Commissioner or, with the approval of the Board, his...

§ 32.1-10. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1980, c. 728.

§ 32.1-11. Environmental health, laboratory, and medical care services - A. The Board may formulate a program of environmental health...

§ 32.1-11.1. Board to establish acquired immunodeficiency syndrome services and education grants program - With such funds as are appropriated for this purpose, the...

§ 32.1-11.2. Regional AIDS resource and consultation centers; HIV early intervention centers - Utilizing existing state and local facilities and from such funds...

§ 32.1-11.3. Patient and community health education services - The Board shall formulate a program of patient and community...

§ 32.1-11.4. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, c. 4, cl. 1.

§ 32.1-11.5. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2016, c. 495, cl. 2.

§ 32.1-11.6. Virginia Pregnant Women Support Fund; purpose; guidelines - A. There is hereby created the Virginia Pregnant Women Support...

§ 32.1-11.7. Guidelines for cleanup of residential property used to manufacture methamphetamine - The Board, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Quality...

§ 32.1-12. Regulations, variances and exemptions - The Board may make, adopt, promulgate and enforce such regulations...

§ 32.1-12.1. Board to establish regulations regarding human research - The Board shall promulgate regulations pursuant to the Administrative Process...

§ 32.1-13. Emergency orders and regulations - The Board may make separate orders and regulations to meet...

§ 32.1-13.1. Health policy responsibilities - The Board of Health may direct the Department to inform...

§ 32.1-14. Annual report - The Board shall submit an annual report to the Governor...

§ 32.1-15. Suggestions as to legislation - The Board may, at each regular session of the General...

§ 32.1-15.1. Certified community health workers - A. As used in this section, "certified community health worker"...

§ 32.1-16. State Department of Health - A. There shall be a State Department of Health in...

§ 32.1-17. Appointment of Commissioner; qualifications; term - A. There shall be a State Health Commissioner appointed by...

§ 32.1-18. Executive officer of Board - The Commissioner shall be the executive officer of the Board...

§ 32.1-19. Duties prescribed by Board - A. The Commissioner shall perform such duties as the Board...

§ 32.1-19.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, c. 683.

§ 32.1-20. Vested with authority of Board - The Commissioner shall be vested with all the authority of...

§ 32.1-21. Salary; teaching activities - The Commissioner shall receive such salary as is fixed by...

§ 32.1-22. Personnel; Deputy Commissioner - A. The Commissioner may employ such personnel as are necessary...

§ 32.1-23. Publication of information - A. The Commissioner may provide for the publication and distribution...

§ 32.1-23.01. Information about and resources on palliative care - The Department shall make information about and resources on palliative...

§ 32.1-23.1. Alternative delivery of certain information; Commissioners to develop single application form for pharmaceutical assistance programs and pharmaceutical discount purchasing cards; certain analysis of access to the Pharmacy Connection prog... - A. The Commissioner shall create links from the Virginia Department...

§ 32.1-23.2. Sexual assault nurse examiner information - A. The Department shall develop and make available on a...

§ 32.1-23.3. Eligible Health Care Provider Reserve Directory - A. As used in this section, "eligible health care provider"...

§ 32.1-23.4. Prescription drug price transparency; civil penalty - A. As used in this section, "nonprofit data services organization"...

§ 32.1-23.5. Reporting of certain data regarding financial assistance - The Commissioner shall report annually by November 1 to the...

§ 32.1-23.6. Information and data related to social determinants of health - A. As used in this section: "Demographic data" means data...

§ 32.1-24. Applicability of Administrative Process Act - The provisions of the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et...

§ 32.1-25. Right of entry to inspect, etc.; warrants - Upon presentation of appropriate credentials and upon consent of the...

§ 32.1-26. Orders; hearing and notice - The Board is authorized to issue orders to require any...

§ 32.1-27. Penalties, injunctions, civil penalties and charges for violations - A. Any person willfully violating or refusing, failing or neglecting...

§ 32.1-27.1. Additional civil penalty or appointment of a receiver - A. In addition to the remedies provided in § 32.1-27,...

§ 32.1-28. When Attorney General to represent Board; special counsel - The Attorney General shall represent the Board and Commissioner in...

§ 32.1-29. Employment of attorney to defend Board members, employee, etc. - If the Commissioner, any Board member or any officer or...

§ 32.1-30. Local health departments - Each county and city shall establish and maintain a local...

§ 32.1-31. Operation of local health department under contract with Board; local health services advisory boards; district health departments - A. The governing body of any county or city may...

§ 32.1-32. Independent local health departments - A. The governing body of any county or city which...

§ 32.1-33. When Board to perform duties of local board - If any governing body of a county or city which...

§ 32.1-34. Scope of local health ordinances and regulations - No county, city or town ordinance or regulation shall be...

§ 32.1-34.1. Power to seek and receive donations - Any health department operating under the provisions of this article...

§ 32.1-34.2. Human trafficking hotline; posted notice required - Each local department of health shall post notice of the...

§ 32.1-34.3. Funding local health departments; cooperative local health budget; report - A. As used in this section: "Cooperative local health budget"...

Chapter 2 - Disease Prevention and Control

§ 32.1-35. List and reports of diseases and dangerous microbes and pathogens - The Board shall promulgate from time to time a list...

§ 32.1-35.1. Information on health care-associated infections - Health care facilities that are required to report information about...

§ 32.1-36. Reports by physicians and laboratory directors - A. Every physician practicing in this Commonwealth who shall diagnose...

§ 32.1-36.1. Confidentiality of test for human immunodeficiency virus; civil penalty; individual action for damages or penalty - A. The results of every test to determine infection with...

§ 32.1-37. Reports by persons other than physicians - A. The person in charge of any medical care facility...

§ 32.1-37.01. Posting of information about cases of communicable disease of public health threat - A. As used in this section: "Reporting entity" means a...

§ 32.1-37.1. Report of diseases infecting dead human bodies - Upon transferring custody of any dead body to any person...

§ 32.1-37.2. Consent for testing for human immunodeficiency virus; condition on disclosure of test results; counseling required; exceptions - A. Prior to performing any test to determine infection with...

§ 32.1-38. Immunity from liability - Any person making a report or disclosure required or authorized...

§ 32.1-39. Surveillance and investigation - A. The Board shall provide for the surveillance of and...

§ 32.1-40. Authority of Commissioner to examine medical records - Every practitioner of the healing arts and every person in...

§ 32.1-41. Anonymity of patients and practitioners to be preserved in use of medical records - The Commissioner or his designee shall preserve the anonymity of...

§ 32.1-42. Emergency rules and regulations - The Board of Health may promulgate regulations and orders to...

§ 32.1-42.1. Administration and dispensing of necessary drugs, devices and vaccines during a declared disaster or emergency - A. The Commissioner, pursuant to § 54.1-3408, may authorize persons...

§ 32.1-42.2. Declared emergency; priority for personal protective equipment and immunization; funeral service licensees and funeral service establishment employees - In any case in which the Board or the Commissioner...

§ 32.1-43. Authority of State Health Commissioner to require quarantine, etc. - The State Health Commissioner shall have the authority to require...

§ 32.1-44. Isolated or quarantined persons - The provisions of this chapter shall be construed to allow...

§ 32.1-45. Expense of treatment - Except as specifically provided by law, the provisions of this...

§ 32.1-45.1. Deemed consent to testing and release of test results related to infection with human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B or C viruses - A. Whenever any health care provider, or any person employed...

§ 32.1-45.2. Public safety employees; testing for blood-borne pathogens; procedure available for certain citizens; definitions - A. If, in the course of employment, an employee of...

§ 32.1-45.3. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2015, c. 301, cl. 1.

§ 32.1-45.4. Comprehensive harm reduction programs - A. The Commissioner or his designee may authorize the director...

§ 32.1-46. Immunization of patients against certain diseases - A. The parent, guardian or person standing in loco parentis...

§ 32.1-46.01. Virginia Immunization Information System - A. The Board of Health shall establish the Virginia Immunization...

§ 32.1-46.02. Administration of influenza vaccine to minors - The Board shall, together with the Board of Nursing and...

§ 32.1-46.1. Board to establish protocol for identification of children with elevated blood-lead levels - The Board shall promulgate regulations establishing a protocol for the...

§ 32.1-46.2. Certain testing or determination of low risk for elevated blood-lead levels required - In accordance with the protocol required by § 32.1-46.1 and...

§ 32.1-47. Exclusion from school of children not immunized - Upon the identification of an outbreak, potential epidemic or epidemic...

§ 32.1-47.1. Vaccination of children; plan enhancements - The Department shall include in its vaccination plans procedures to...

§ 32.1-48. Powers of Commissioner in epidemic - A. Nothing in this article shall preclude the Commissioner from...

§ 32.1-48.001. (For contingent effective date, see Acts 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 472, cl. 2) Real-time information sharing for emergency medical services agencies - A. The Department shall develop and implement a system for...

§ 32.1-48.01. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...

§ 32.1-48.02. Investigations of verified reports or medical evidence; counseling; outpatient and emergency treatment orders; custody upon emergency order; application of article - A. Upon receiving at least two verified reports or upon...

§ 32.1-48.03. Petition for hearing; temporary detention - A. Upon receiving a verified report or upon receiving medical...

§ 32.1-48.04. Isolation hearing; conditions; order for isolation; right to appeal - A. The isolation hearing shall be held within 48 hours...

§ 32.1-48.05. Application of article; determination of exceptional circumstances; regulations; duties of the State Health Commissioner not be delegated - A. Upon a determination by the State Health Commissioner that...

§ 32.1-48.06. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...

§ 32.1-48.07. Conditions for invoking the provisions of this article - A. Prior to issuing any order of quarantine or any...

§ 32.1-48.08. Declaration of quarantine - A. The State Health Commissioner may declare a quarantine of...

§ 32.1-48.09. Order of quarantine - A. The State Health Commissioner shall, prior to placing any...

§ 32.1-48.010. Appeal of any order of quarantine - A. Any person or persons subject to an order of...

§ 32.1-48.011. Isolation may be ordered under certain exceptional circumstances; Commissioner authorized to require hospitalization or other health care - A. Whenever the State Health Commissioner makes a determination of...

§ 32.1-48.012. Isolation order - A. The State Health Commissioner shall, prior to placing any...

§ 32.1-48.013. Appeal of any order of isolation - A. Any person or persons subject to an order of...

§ 32.1-48.013:1. Electronic filings as protection from communicable disease - Notwithstanding Rule 1:17 of the Supreme Court of Virginia, a...

§ 32.1-48.014. Enforcement of orders of quarantine or isolation; penalties - A. Any person who does not comply with a validly...

§ 32.1-48.015. Authorization to disclose health records - A. The provisions of this article are hereby declared to...

§ 32.1-48.016. Immunity from liability - Any person, including a person who serves in a Medical...

§ 32.1-48.017. Use of public or private property or facilities - A. Upon the declaration by the Governor of a state...

§ 32.1-48.1. Regulation of State Health Commissioner declaring existence of rabies; display and publication - Whenever the State Health Commissioner is informed that an outbreak...

§ 32.1-48.2. Regulation of Commissioner requiring vaccination or inoculation of dogs - When the State Health Commissioner has declared that an outbreak...

§ 32.1-48.3. Regulations of Commissioner covering local ordinances and requirements - If the governing body of the county or city in...

§ 32.1-48.4. Commissioner to cooperate with local governing bodies and agencies - The Commissioner shall, insofar as practicable, cooperate with the local...

§ 32.1-49. Tuberculosis required to be reported - The Board shall include tuberculosis in the list of diseases...

§ 32.1-49.1. Definitions - "Active tuberculosis disease" means a communicable disease caused by an...

§ 32.1-50. Examination of persons suspected of having active tuberculosis disease; reporting; report forms; report schedule; laboratory reports and required samples - A. Any local health director may request any person having...

§ 32.1-50.1. Treatment plan; submission of plan and mediation of disagreements; determination of cure - A. Each physician practicing in the Commonwealth who assumes responsibility...

§ 32.1-50.2. Administration of tuberculin purified protein derivative by nurses; policies and guidelines - The Department shall issue policies and guidelines governing the possession...

§ 32.1-51. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1990, c. 958.

§ 32.1-53. Facilities and contracts for treatment of tuberculosis patients - The Board may construct and operate hospitals and other facilities...

§ 32.1-54. Commissioner authorized to charge patients for care - When a tuberculosis patient is admitted to a facility operated...

§ 32.1-55. Definition - As used in this article, "venereal disease" includes syphilis, gonorrhea,...

§ 32.1-55.1. Anonymous testing sites for human immunodeficiency virus - From such funds as are appropriated for this purpose, the...

§ 32.1-56. Information to be provided patients - It shall be the duty of every physician or other...

§ 32.1-57. Examination, testing and treatment; failure to comply with order of examination - A. A local health director may require any person suspected...

§ 32.1-58. Persons convicted of certain crimes to be examined, tested and treated - Each person convicted of a violation of § 18.2-346, 18.2-346.01,...

§ 32.1-59. Examination and treatment in certain institutions - Every person admitted to any state correctional institution and every...

§ 32.1-60. Prenatal tests required - Every physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner attending a pregnant...

§ 32.1-61. Definition - As used in this article, "ophthalmia neonatorum" means any inflammation,...

§ 32.1-62. Procedure upon infant's birth - In order to prevent ophthalmia neonatorum, the physician, nurse or...

§ 32.1-63. Duty of physician, midwife or nurse noting ophthalmia neonatorum - It shall be the duty of any physician, midwife or...

§ 32.1-64. Duty of Board to provide for treatment - The Board shall provide for the gratuitous distribution of the...

§ 32.1-64.1. Virginia Hearing Loss Identification and Monitoring System - A. In order to identify hearing loss at the earliest...

§ 32.1-64.2. Confidentiality of records; publication; Commissioner required to contact parents, physicians, and relevant local early intervention program - The Commissioner and all other persons to whom data is...

§ 32.1-65. Certain newborn screening required - In order to prevent intellectual disability and permanent disability or...

§ 32.1-65.1. Critical congenital heart defect screening test required - In order to prevent disability or death, the Board shall...

§ 32.1-66. Commissioner to notify physicians; reports to Commissioner - Whenever a newborn screening test result indicates suspicion of any...

§ 32.1-67. Duty of Board for follow-up and referral protocols; regulations - Infants identified with any condition for which newborn screening is...

§ 32.1-67.1. Confidentiality of records; prohibition of discrimination - The results of the newborn screening services conducted pursuant to...

§ 32.1-68. Commissioner to establish screening and treatment program; review by Board; program to include education and post-screening counseling; laboratory tests - A. The Commissioner, in cooperation with local health directors, shall...

§ 32.1-69. Records confidential; disclosure of results of screening - The results of any particular screening program shall be sent...

§ 32.1-69.1. Virginia Congenital Anomalies Reporting and Education System - A. In order to collect data to evaluate the possible...

§ 32.1-69.1:1. Dissemination of information regarding birth defects - The Commissioner shall develop a publication concerning the role of...

§ 32.1-69.2. Confidentiality of records; publication; authority of Commissioner to contact parents and physicians - The Commissioner and all other persons to whom data is...

§ 32.1-69.3. Virginia Cord Blood Bank Initiative established - A. There is hereby established the Virginia Cord Blood Bank...

§ 32.1-69.4. Publication of information regarding cord blood education - In addition to the requirements of § 32.1-69.3, the Commissioner...

§ 32.1-70. Information from hospitals, clinics, certain laboratories and physicians supplied to Commissioner; statewide cancer registry - A. Each hospital, clinic and independent pathology laboratory shall make...

§ 32.1-70.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1998, c. 315.

§ 32.1-70.2. Collection of cancer case information by the Commissioner - A. Using such funds as may be appropriated therefor, the...

§ 32.1-71. Confidential nature of information supplied; publication; reciprocal data-sharing agreements - A. The Commissioner and all persons to whom information is...

§ 32.1-71.01. Penalties for unauthorized use of statewide cancer registry - In addition to the remedies provided in § 32.1-27, any...

§ 32.1-71.02. Notification of cancer patients of statewide cancer registry reporting - A. Any physician diagnosing a malignant tumor or cancer shall,...

§ 32.1-71.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1994, c. 109.

§ 32.1-72. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1992, cc. 747 and 873.

§ 32.1-73. Failure to comply with provisions; grounds for revocation of license or permit - The failure of any physician, nurse or midwife to comply...

§ 32.1-73.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2002, c. 60.

§ 32.1-73.5. Comprehensive statewide asthma management plan - A. Using such funds as may be appropriated therefor, the...

§ 32.1-73.6. Implementation of state asthma management programs - A. Using such funds as may be appropriated for this...

§ 32.1-73.7. Department to be lead agency for youth suicide prevention - With such funds as may be appropriated for this purpose,...

§ 32.1-73.8. Youth health risk behavior survey - The Department shall, in cooperation with the Department of Behavioral...

§ 32.1-73.9. Advisory Council on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections and Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome; membership - A. There is hereby created in the executive branch of...

§ 32.1-73.10. Advisory Council; report - The Advisory Council shall report to the Governor and the...

§ 32.1-73.11. (Continued pursuant to Acts 2022, Sp. S. I, c. 2, item 299 D) Sunset - This article shall expire on July 1, 2020. 2017, c....

§ 32.1-73.12. Department to be lead agency for services for substance-exposed infants - The Department shall serve as the lead agency with responsibility...

§ 32.1-73.13. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias; early detection and diagnosis; risk reduction and care planning - Using such funds as may be available for such purpose,...

§ 32.1-73.14. Rare Disease Council; purpose - There is hereby created in the executive branch of state...

§ 32.1-73.15. Powers and duties of the Council - The Council shall have the power and duty to: 1....

§ 32.1-73.16. Membership; terms; quorum; meetings; staffing - A. The Council shall have a total membership of 21...

§ 32.1-73.17. Rare Disease Council Fund - There is hereby created in the state treasury a special...

§ 32.1-73.18. Renal Disease Council; purpose - There is hereby created in the executive branch of state...

§ 32.1-73.19. Powers and duties of the Council - The Council shall have the power and duty to: 1....

§ 32.1-73.20. Membership; terms; quorum; meetings; staffing - A. The Council shall have a total membership of 21...

Chapter 3 - Medical Care Services

§ 32.1-74. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1984, c. 781, effective March 1, 1985.

§ 32.1-76.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1984, c. 629.

§ 32.1-76.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1984, c. 781, effective March 1, 1985.

§ 32.1-77. State plans for maternal and child health services and children's specialty services - A. The Board is authorized to prepare, amend from time...

§ 32.1-77.1. State-certified doulas; certification - A. As used in this section, "state-certified doula" means a...

§ 32.1-78. Reporting information about children with health problems or handicapping conditions - Notwithstanding § 32.1-271 or any other law to the contrary,...

§ 32.1-79. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2003, c. 639, cl. 2.

§ 32.1-89. Health services for persons suffering from hemophilia and related diseases - A. The State Board of Health shall establish a program...

§ 32.1-90. Health services for persons suffering from epilepsy and cystic fibrosis - The Board may provide, through cooperative agreements with medical facilities...

§ 32.1-91. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1980, c. 728.

§ 32.1-92. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1982, c. 15.

§ 32.1-92.1. Funding of certain abortions where pregnancy results from rape or incest - From the moneys appropriated to the Department from the general...

§ 32.1-92.2. Funding of certain abortions where fetus is believed to have incapacitating physical deformity or mental deficiency; physician's certificate - From the moneys appropriated to the Department from the general...

Chapter 4 - Health Care Planning

§ 32.1-93. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1982, c. 388.

§ 32.1-102.1. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context indicates otherwise:...

§ 32.1-102.1:1. Equipment registration required - Within thirty calendar days of becoming contractually obligated to acquire...

§ 32.1-102.1:2. Certificate of public need required; registration of certain equipment and capital projects required - A. No person shall undertake a project described in subsection...

§ 32.1-102.1:3. Medical care facilities and projects for which a certificate is required - A. The following medical care facilities shall be subject to...

§ 32.1-102.2. Regulations - A. The Board shall promulgate regulations that are consistent with...

§ 32.1-102.2:1. State Health Services Plan; Task Force - A. The Board shall appoint and convene a State Health...

§ 32.1-102.3. Demonstration of public need required; criteria for determining need - A. No certificate may be issued unless the Commissioner has...

§ 32.1-102.3:1. Application for certificate not required of certain nursing facilities or nursing homes - An application for a certificate that there exists a public...

§ 32.1-102.3:1.1. Continuing care retirement communities accessing medical assistance - A. A nursing facility in Planning District 8 in a...

§ 32.1-102.3:2. Certificates of public need; applications to be filed in response to Requests for Applications (RFAs) - A. Except for applications for continuing care retirement community nursing...

§ 32.1-102.3:2.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1998, c. 794.

§ 32.1-102.3:2.2. Expired - Expired.

§ 32.1-102.3:3. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1992, c. 612.

§ 32.1-102.3:5. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, c. 301, cl. 1.

§ 32.1-102.3:7. Application for transfer of nursing facility beds - A. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 32.1-102.3:2, the Commissioner shall...

§ 32.1-102.3:8. Application for an open admission period for a continuing care retirement community - A. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 32.1-102.3:2, the Commissioner shall...

§ 32.1-102.4. Conditions of certificates; monitoring; revocation of certificates; civil penalties - A. The Commissioner may, in accordance with regulations of the...

§ 32.1-102.5. Certificate not transferable - No certificate issued for a project shall be transferable. 1982,...

§ 32.1-102.6. Administrative procedures - A. To obtain a certificate for a project, the applicant...

§ 32.1-102.6:1. Revocation of a certificate - The Commissioner shall revoke a certificate of public need for:...

§ 32.1-102.7. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1984, c. 740.

§ 32.1-102.8. Enjoining project undertaken without certificate or registration - On petition of the Commissioner, the Board or the Attorney...

§ 32.1-102.9. Designation of judge - The judge of the court to which any appeal is...

§ 32.1-102.10. Commencing project without certificate or registration grounds for refusing to issue license - Commencing any project without a certificate or registration required by...

§ 32.1-102.11. Application of article - A. Every project of an existing or proposed medical care...

§ 32.1-102.12. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, c. 123, cl. 1.

§ 32.1-102.13. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, c. 5, cl. 1.

§ 32.1-103. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1984, c. 424.

§ 32.1-111.1. Definitions - As used in this article: "Advisory Board" means the State...

§ 32.1-111.2. Exemptions from provisions of this article - The following entities are exempted from the provisions of this...

§ 32.1-111.3. Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan; Trauma Triage Plan; Stroke Triage Plan - A. The Board of Health shall develop a Statewide Emergency...

§ 32.1-111.4. Regulations; emergency medical services personnel and vehicles; response times; enforcement provisions; civil penalties - A. The Board shall prescribe by regulation: 1. Requirements for...

§ 32.1-111.4:1. State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board; purpose; membership; duties; reimbursement of expenses; staff support - A. There is hereby created in the executive branch the...

§ 32.1-111.4:2. Regional emergency medical services councils - The Board shall designate regional emergency medical services councils that...

§ 32.1-111.4:3. Provision of emergency medical services - A. Any county, city, or town may provide emergency medical...

§ 32.1-111.4:4. Emergency medical services personnel and equipment may in emergencies go or be sent beyond territorial limits - Whenever the necessity arises during any actual or potential emergency...

§ 32.1-111.4:5. Contracts of counties, cities, and towns to furnish emergency medical services; public liability insurance to cover claims arising out of mutual aid agreements - A. The governing body of any city or town may,...

§ 32.1-111.4:6. Establishment of an emergency medical services agency as a department of local government - A. The governing body of any county, city, or town...

§ 32.1-111.4:7. Establishment of an emergency medical services agency as a nongovernmental entity; dissolution - A. Any number of persons wishing to provide emergency medical...

§ 32.1-111.4:8. Ordinances as to emergency medical services agencies - The governing body of any county, city, or town in...

§ 32.1-111.5. Certification and recertification of emergency medical services providers; appeals process - A. The Board shall prescribe by regulation the qualifications required...

§ 32.1-111.5:1. Emergency medical services personnel mental health awareness training - A. Each emergency medical services agency shall develop curricula for...

§ 32.1-111.6. Emergency medical services agency license; emergency medical services vehicle permits - A. No person shall operate, conduct, maintain, or profess to...

§ 32.1-111.6:1. Commissioner to issue certain emergency medical services licenses or permits - The Commissioner of Health shall issue licenses to emergency medical...

§ 32.1-111.7. Inspections - Each emergency medical services agency for which a license has...

§ 32.1-111.8. Revocation and suspension of licenses and permits - Whenever an emergency medical services agency or emergency medical services...

§ 32.1-111.9. Applications for variances or exemptions - A. Prior to the submission of (i) an application for...

§ 32.1-111.9:1. Out-of-state emergency medical services providers - A. Notwithstanding the provisions of this article or any other...

§ 32.1-111.10. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2015, cc. 502 and 503, cl. 2.

§ 32.1-111.12. Virginia Rescue Squads Assistance Fund; disbursements - A. For the purpose of providing financial assistance to emergency...

§ 32.1-111.12:01. Financial Assistance and Review Committee; appointment; terms; duties - A. For the purposes of administering the Virginia Rescue Squads...

§ 32.1-111.13. Annual financial reports - The Virginia Association of Volunteer Rescue Squads shall submit an...

§ 32.1-111.14. Powers of governing bodies of counties, cities, and towns - A. Upon finding as fact, after notice and public hearing,...

§ 32.1-111.14:1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2003, c. 978, cl. 2, effective April...

§ 32.1-111.14:2. Establishment of emergency medical services zones or districts; tax levies - The governing bodies of the several counties or cities of...

§ 32.1-111.14:3. Exclusion of certain areas from emergency medical services zones or districts and exemption of such areas from certain levies - The governing body of any county or city having an...

§ 32.1-111.14:4. Advances by county or city to emergency medical services zone or district; reimbursement; validation of prior advances - A. The governing body of any county or city in...

§ 32.1-111.14:5. Authority of emergency medical services agency incident commander when operating at an emergency incident; penalty for refusal to obey orders - Except as provided in § 32.1-111.14:6, while any emergency medical...

§ 32.1-111.14:6. Supervision and control of joint services of emergency medical services agencies - Whenever two or more emergency medical services agencies are called...

§ 32.1-111.14:7. Penalty for disobeying emergency medical services agency chief or other officer in command - If any person at a fire or medical emergency refuses...

§ 32.1-111.14:8. Purchase, maintenance, etc., of equipment; donated equipment - A. The governing body of every county, city, or town...

§ 32.1-111.14:9. Entry of buildings and premises adjoining during a medical emergency - A. The incident commander at a medical emergency, and his...

§ 32.1-111.15. Statewide poison control system established - From such funds as may be appropriated for this purpose...

§ 32.1-111.15:1. Department responsible for stroke care quality improvement; sharing of data and information - A. The Department shall be responsible for stroke care quality...

§ 32.1-111.16. Director of Office of Emergency Medical Services annual performance evaluation - Effective on and after July 1, 1996, the Commissioner of...

§ 32.1-112. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, c. 899.

§ 32.1-116.1. Prehospital patient care reporting procedure; trauma registry; confidentiality - A. In order to collect data on the incidence, severity,...

§ 32.1-116.1:1. Disclosure of medical records - Any licensed physician, licensed health care provider, or licensed health...

§ 32.1-116.1:2. Expired - Expired.

§ 32.1-116.2. Confidential nature of information supplied; publication; liability protections - A. The Commissioner and all other persons to whom data...

§ 32.1-116.3. Reporting of communicable diseases; definitions - A. For the purposes of this section: "Communicable disease of...

§ 32.1-117. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1989, cc. 617, 633.

§ 32.1-122.01. Definitions - As used in this article unless the context requires a...

§ 32.1-122.02. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2002, c. 83.

§ 32.1-122.03. State Health Plan - A. The Board may develop, and revise as it deems...

§ 32.1-122.03:1. Statewide Telehealth Plan - A. As used in this section: "Remote patient monitoring services"...

§ 32.1-122.04. Responsibilities of the Department - The Department shall have the following responsibilities as directed by...

§ 32.1-122.05. Regional health planning agencies; boards; duties and responsibilities - A. For the purpose of representing the interests of health...

§ 32.1-122.06. Funds for regional health planning - In the interest of maintaining a regional health planning mechanism...

§ 32.1-122.07. Authority of Commissioner for certain health planning activities; rural health plan; designation as a rural hospital - A. The Commissioner, with the approval of the Board, is...

§ 32.1-122.08. Continuation of regulations - Regulations promulgated by the Virginia Health Planning Board prior to...

§ 32.1-122.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1992, c. 407.

§ 32.1-122.5. Criteria to identify underserved areas - The Board of Health shall establish criteria to identify medically...

§ 32.1-122.5:1. Conditional grants for certain medical students - A. With such funds as are appropriated for this purpose,...

§ 32.1-122.6. Conditional grants for certain medical students - A. With such funds as are appropriated for this purpose,...

§ 32.1-122.6:01. Board of Health to award certain scholarships and loan repayment funds - A. The Board of Health shall award to eligible part-time...

§ 32.1-122.6:02. Conditional grants for certain nurse practitioner students - A. The Board of Health shall establish annual nursing scholarships...

§ 32.1-122.6:03. Conditional grants for certain physician assistant students - A. The Board of Health shall establish annual physician assistant...

§ 32.1-122.6:04. Nurse Loan Repayment Program - A. With such funds as are appropriated for this purpose,...

§ 32.1-122.6:1. Physician Loan Repayment Program - A. With such funds as are appropriated for this purpose,...

§ 32.1-122.7. Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; purpose - A. There is hereby created as a public body corporate...

§ 32.1-122.7:1. Board of Directors of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority - The Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority shall be governed by...

§ 32.1-122.7:2. Powers and duties of the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority; exemptions - A. The Authority is authorized to serve as the incorporated...

§ 32.1-122.8. Board's authority to receive and expend funds - The Board of Health is hereby authorized to apply for,...

§ 32.1-122.9. Conditional grants for certain dental students - A. With such funds as are appropriated for this purpose,...

§ 32.1-122.9:1. Dentist Loan Repayment Program - A. With such funds as are appropriated for this purpose,...

§ 32.1-122.10. Conditional grants for certain dental hygiene students - A. The Board of Health shall establish annual dental hygiene...

§ 32.1-122.10:001. Purpose; one or more localities may create authority; advertisement and notice of hearing - A. Communities lack the ability to coordinate, across jurisdictions, health...

§ 32.1-122.10:002. Board of directors; expenses; officers; terms of office; quorum; annual report - A. All powers, rights and duties conferred by this article,...

§ 32.1-122.10:003. Office of the authority - The board of each authority shall establish a principal office...

§ 32.1-122.10:004. Powers of the authority - Any authority shall have the following powers: 1. Each authority...

§ 32.1-122.10:005. Licensed agents; liability - No volunteer of any participating entity who is duly licensed...

§ 32.1-122.10:01. Expired - Expired.

§ 32.1-122.20. Recruitment and retention of health care providers - The Commissioner shall direct the Commonwealth's activities and programs for...

§ 32.1-122.21. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2010, cc. 187 and 488, cl. 2....

§ 32.1-122.22. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2011, c. 37, cl. 2, effective July...

Chapter 5 - Regulation of Medical Care Facilities and Services

§ 32.1-123. Definitions - As used in this article unless a different meaning or...

§ 32.1-124. Exemptions - The provisions of §§ 32.1-123 through 32.1-136 shall not be...

§ 32.1-125. Establishment or operation of hospitals and nursing homes prohibited without license or certification; licenses not transferable - A. No person shall own, establish, conduct, maintain, manage or...

§ 32.1-125.01. Failing to report; penalty - Any hospital or nursing home that has not paid civil...

§ 32.1-125.1. Inspection of hospitals by state agencies generally - As used in this section unless the context requires a...

§ 32.1-125.2. Disclosure of other providers of services - A. 1. Any hospital which has, or is affiliated with...

§ 32.1-125.3. Bed capacity and licensure in hospitals designated as critical access hospitals; designation as rural hospital - A. Any medical care facility licensed as a hospital pursuant...

§ 32.1-125.4. Retaliation or discrimination against complainants - No hospital may retaliate or discriminate in any manner against...

§ 32.1-125.5. Confidentiality of complainant's identity - Whenever the Department conducts inspections and investigations in response to...

§ 32.1-126. Commissioner to inspect and to issue licenses to or assure compliance with certification requirements for hospitals, nursing homes, and certified nursing facilities; notice of denial of license; consultative advice and assistance; notice... - A. Pursuant to this article, the Commissioner shall issue licenses...

§ 32.1-126.01. Employment for compensation of persons convicted of barrier crimes prohibited; criminal records check required; suspension or revocation of license - A. A licensed nursing home shall not hire for compensated...

§ 32.1-126.02. Hospital pharmacy employees; criminal records check required - A. A licensed hospital shall obtain, within sixty days of...

§ 32.1-126.1. Asbestos inspection for hospitals - The Commissioner shall not issue a license to or renew...

§ 32.1-126.2. Fire suppression systems required in nursing facilities and nursing homes - After January 1, 1993, the Commissioner shall not issue a...

§ 32.1-126.3. Fire suppression systems required in hospitals - After January 1, 1998, the Commissioner shall not issue a...

§ 32.1-126.4. Hospital standing orders or protocols for certain vaccinations - A. A hospital may provide or arrange for the administration...

§ 32.1-126.5. Consolidation of inspections - The Commissioner shall identify any inspection of a medical care...

§ 32.1-127. Regulations - A. The regulations promulgated by the Board to carry out...

§ 32.1-127.001. Certain design and construction standards to be incorporated in hospital and nursing home licensure regulations - Notwithstanding any law or regulation to the contrary, the Board...

§ 32.1-127.01. Regulations to authorize certain sanctions and guidelines - The regulations established pursuant to § 32.1-127 shall authorize the...

§ 32.1-127.1. Immunity from liability for routine referral for organ and tissue donation - Any chief administrative officer of a hospital or his designee...

§ 32.1-127.1:01. Record storage - A. Health records, as defined in § 32.1-127.1:03, may be...

§ 32.1-127.1:02. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1997, c. 682.

§ 32.1-127.1:03. Health records privacy - A. There is hereby recognized an individual's right of privacy...

§ 32.1-127.1:04. Use or disclosure of certain protected health information required - A. The coordination of prevention and control of disease, injury,...

§ 32.1-127.1:05. Breach of medical information notification - A. As used in this section: "Breach of the security...

§ 32.1-127.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1991, c. 94.

§ 32.1-127.3. Immunity from liability for certain free health care services - A. No hospital employee who renders health care services at...

§ 32.1-128. Applicability to hospitals and nursing homes for practice of religious tenets - Nothing in this article shall be construed to authorize or...

§ 32.1-129. Application for license - Each application for a hospital or nursing home license shall...

§ 32.1-130. Service charges - A. A service charge of $1.50 per patient bed for...

§ 32.1-131. Expiration and renewal of licenses - All licenses shall expire at midnight December 31 of the...

§ 32.1-132. Alterations or additions to hospitals and nursing homes; when new license required; use of inpatient hospital beds for furnishing skilled care services - A. Any person who desires to make any substantial alteration...

§ 32.1-133. Display of license - The current license shall at all times be posted in...

§ 32.1-133.1. Human trafficking hotline; posted notice required; civil penalty - Any health care facility (i) licensed as a hospital pursuant...

§ 32.1-134. Family planning information in hospitals providing maternity care - Every hospital providing maternity care shall, prior to releasing each...

§ 32.1-134.01. Certain information required for maternity patients - Every licensed nurse midwife, licensed midwife, or hospital providing maternity...

§ 32.1-134.02. Infants; blood sample provided to parents - Every hospital providing maternity care shall offer to obtain a...

§ 32.1-134.1. When denial, etc., to duly licensed physician of staff membership or professional privileges improper - It shall be an improper practice for the governing body...

§ 32.1-134.2. Clinical privileges for certain practitioners - The grant or denial of clinical privileges to licensed podiatrists...

§ 32.1-134.3. Response to applications for clinical privileges - Whenever a podiatrist or certified nurse midwife licensed as a...

§ 32.1-134.4. Right of podiatrists or nurse practitioners to injunction - Any licensed podiatrist or certified nurse midwife licensed as a...

§ 32.1-135. Revocation or suspension of license or certification; restriction or prohibition of new admissions to nursing home - A. In accordance with applicable regulations of the Board, the...

§ 32.1-135.1. Certain advertisements prohibited - No hospital licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall...

§ 32.1-135.2. Offer or payment of remuneration in exchange for referral prohibited - No hospital licensed pursuant to this chapter shall knowingly and...

§ 32.1-136. Violation; penalties - Any person owning, establishing, conducting, maintaining, managing or operating a...

§ 32.1-137. Certification of medical care facilities under Title XVIII of Social Security Act - The Board shall constitute the sole agency of the Commonwealth...

§ 32.1-137.01. Posting of charity care policies - A. Every hospital shall provide written information about the hospital's...

§ 32.1-137.02. Hospital discharge procedures - Before a hospital discharges a patient, it shall, to the...

§ 32.1-137.03. Discharge planning; designation of individual to provide care - A. Every hospital (i) shall provide each patient admitted as...

§ 32.1-137.04. Patient notice of observation or outpatient status - A. A hospital shall provide oral and written notice to...

§ 32.1-137.05. (Effective until July 1, 2023) Information regarding standard charges; advance estimate of patient payment amount for elective procedure, test, or service - Every hospital shall, upon request of a patient scheduled to...

§ 32.1-137.05. (Effective July 1, 2023) Information regarding standard charges; advance estimate of patient payment amount for elective procedure, test, or service - Every hospital shall, upon request of a patient scheduled to...

§ 32.1-137.06. Lyme disease test result information - A. Every laboratory reporting the results of a test for...

§ 32.1-137.07. Violations of certain provisions; penalty - If the Commissioner receives a report from the State Corporation...

§ 32.1-137.08. Medical care facilities; persons with disabilities; designated support persons - A. As used in this section: "Activity of daily living"...

§ 32.1-137.09. Hospital emergency department CPT code data reporting - A. Every hospital in the Commonwealth that includes an emergency...

§ 32.1-137.010. Financial assistance; payment plans - A. As used in this section: "Patient" means any adult...

§ 32.1-137.1. Definitions - As used in this and the following article, unless the...

§ 32.1-137.2. Certification of quality assurance; application; issuance; denial; renewal - A. Every managed care health insurance plan licensee shall request...

§ 32.1-137.3. Regulations - Consistent with its duties to protect the health, safety, and...

§ 32.1-137.4. Examination, review or investigation - A. The Commissioner shall cause each managed care health insurance...

§ 32.1-137.5. Civil penalties; probation; suspension; restriction or prohibition of new enrollments to managed care health insurance plan licensee; revocation or nonrenewal of certificate of quality assurance; appeal process; correction - A. In accordance with applicable regulations of the Board and...

§ 32.1-137.6. Complaint system - A. Each managed care health insurance plan licensee subject to...

§ 32.1-137.7. Definitions - As used in this article: "Adverse determination" means a determination...

§ 32.1-137.8. Application to and compliance by utilization review entities - A. No utilization review entity shall perform utilization review with...

§ 32.1-137.9. Requirements and standards for utilization review entities - A. Each entity shall establish reasonable and prudent standards and...

§ 32.1-137.10. Utilization review plan required - A. Each utilization review entity subject to this article shall...

§ 32.1-137.11. Accessibility of utilization review entity - A utilization review entity shall provide accessibility for covered persons...

§ 32.1-137.12. Emergencies; extensions; access to and confidentiality of patient-specific medical records and information - A. For emergency health care, authorization may be requested by...

§ 32.1-137.13. Adverse determination - A. The treating provider shall be notified in writing of...

§ 32.1-137.14. Reconsideration of adverse determination - A. A treating provider may request reconsideration of an adverse...

§ 32.1-137.15. Adverse determination; appeal - Each entity shall establish an internal appeals process, including a...

§ 32.1-137.16. Records - Every entity subject to Article 1.1 (§ 32.1-137.1 et seq.)...

§ 32.1-137.17. Limitation on Commissioner's jurisdiction - The Commissioner shall have the right to determine compliance with...

§ 32.1-138. Enumeration; posting of policies; staff training; responsibilities devolving on guardians, etc.; exceptions; certification of compliance - A. The governing body of a nursing home facility required...

§ 32.1-138.1. Implementation of transfer and discharge policies - A. To implement and conform with the provisions of subdivision...

§ 32.1-138.2. Certain contract provisions prohibited - No contract or agreement for nursing home care shall contain...

§ 32.1-138.3. Third party guarantor prohibition - Any facility certified under Title XVIII or XIX of the...

§ 32.1-138.4. Retaliation or discrimination against complainants - No nursing facility may retaliate or discriminate in any manner...

§ 32.1-138.5. Confidentiality of complainant's identity - Whenever the Department conducts inspections and investigations in response to...

§ 32.1-138.6. Definitions - In this chapter the following terms have the meanings indicated:...

§ 32.1-138.7. Certificates of registration required; issuance; transferability; regulations - A private review agent may not conduct utilization reviews in...

§ 32.1-138.8. Consultation with health regulatory boards - If in the administration of this article a question concerning...

§ 32.1-138.9. Standards for approval - Each private review agent shall file an application with the...

§ 32.1-138.10. Expiration; renewal - Each certificate of registration shall expire on the second anniversary...

§ 32.1-138.11. Denial; revocation - A. The Department may deny a certificate of registration to...

§ 32.1-138.12. Waiver of requirements of article - The Department shall waive the requirements of this article for...

§ 32.1-138.13. Access to and confidentiality of patient-specific medical records and information - Private review agents who have been granted a certificate of...

§ 32.1-138.14. No private right of action created - This article shall not be construed to create a private...

§ 32.1-138.15. Regulations - The Department shall promulgate regulations, pursuant to the Administrative Process...

§ 32.1-139. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1993, c. 203.

§ 32.1-145. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2003, c. 641, cl. 2.

§ 32.1-148. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1996, c. 899.

§ 32.1-157. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1984, c. 497.

§ 32.1-162.1. Definitions - As used in this article unless a different meaning or...

§ 32.1-162.2. Exemptions from article - The provisions of this article shall not be applicable to:...

§ 32.1-162.3. License required for hospice programs; notice of denial of license; renewal thereof - A. No person shall establish or operate a hospice or...

§ 32.1-162.4. Inspections - The Commissioner may cause each hospice licensed under this article...

§ 32.1-162.5. Regulations - A. The Board shall prescribe such regulations governing the activities...

§ 32.1-162.5:1. Notice to dispenser of patient's death; disposition of dispensed drugs - A. Any hospice licensed by the Department or exempt from...

§ 32.1-162.6. Revocation or suspension of license - A. The Commissioner is authorized to revoke or suspend any...

§ 32.1-162.6:1. Possession or administration of cannabis oil - Hospice and hospice facility employees who are authorized to possess,...

§ 32.1-162.7. Definitions - As used in this article: "Health care professional" means any...

§ 32.1-162.8. Exemptions from article - The provisions of this article shall not be applicable to:...

§ 32.1-162.9. Licenses required; renewal thereof - A. No person shall establish or operate a home care...

§ 32.1-162.9:1. Employment for compensation of persons convicted of barrier crimes prohibited; criminal records check required; drug testing; suspension or revocation of license - A. A licensed home care organization as defined in §...

§ 32.1-162.10. Inspections; fees - State agencies shall make or cause to be made only...

§ 32.1-162.11. Liability insurance required - Every licensed home care organization shall obtain and maintain a...

§ 32.1-162.12. Regulations - The Board shall prescribe such regulations governing the activities and...

§ 32.1-162.13. Revocation or suspension of license - A. The Commissioner is authorized to revoke or suspend any...

§ 32.1-162.14. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2003, c. 449.

§ 32.1-162.15. Violation; penalties - Any person owning, establishing, conducting, maintaining, managing or operating a...

§ 32.1-162.15:1. Unlawful advertising as a home care organization - It shall be unlawful for any person not licensed as...

§ 32.1-162.15:2. (Effective July 1, 2023) Definitions - "Anonymous physical evidence recovery kit" has the same meaning as...

§ 32.1-162.15:3. (Effective July 1, 2023) Services for survivors of sexual assault; plan required - A. Every hospital licensed by the Department shall develop and,...

§ 32.1-162.15:4. (For effective date, see Acts 2020, c 725) Treatment services - A. The Board shall adopt regulations to establish standards for...

§ 32.1-162.15:5. Transfer services - The Board shall adopt regulations to establish standards for review...

§ 32.1-162.15:6. (Effective July 1, 2023) Services for pediatric survivors of sexual assault; plan required - A. A pediatric health care facility may provide treatment services...

§ 32.1-162.15:7. (Effective July 1, 2023) Inspections; report required - A. The Department shall periodically conduct such inspections of hospitals...

§ 32.1-162.15:8. (Effective July 1, 2023) Storage, retention, and dissemination of photographic documentation - Photographic documentation collected by a treatment hospital or approved pediatric...

§ 32.1-162.15:9. (Effective July 1, 2023) Submission of evidence - Every treatment hospital and approved pediatric health care facility that...

§ 32.1-162.15:10. (Effective July 1, 2023) Complaints - The Department shall establish a process for receiving complaints regarding...

§ 32.1-162.15:11. Task Force on Services for Survivors of Sexual Assault - A. There is hereby created the Task Force on Services...

Chapter 5.1 - Human Research

§ 32.1-162.16. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a...

§ 32.1-162.17. Exemptions - The following categories of human research are exempt from the...

§ 32.1-162.18. Informed consent - A. In order to conduct human research in this Commonwealth,...

§ 32.1-162.19. Human research review committees - A. Each institution or agency which conducts or which proposes...

§ 32.1-162.20. Applicability of federal policies - Human research which is subject to policies and regulations for...

Chapter 5.2 - Human Cloning

§ 32.1-162.21. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 32.1-162.22. Human cloning prohibited; civil penalty - A. No person shall (i) perform human cloning or (ii)...

Chapter 5.3 - Commonwealth Health Research Board and Fund; Christopher Reeve Stem Cell Research Fund

§ 32.1-162.23. Commonwealth Health Research Board established - A. The Commonwealth Health Research Board (the Board) is established...

§ 32.1-162.24. Duties of the Board - The Board shall: 1. Establish specific criteria and procedures governing...

§ 32.1-162.25. Powers of the Board - In order to carry out its purposes, the Board may:...

§ 32.1-162.26. Conditions and restrictions on financial assistance - A. The Board shall provide financial support only for research...

§ 32.1-162.27. Cooperation with other agencies - All agencies of the Commonwealth shall cooperate with the Board...

§ 32.1-162.28. Commonwealth Health Research Fund established; administration - A. There is created in the state treasury a special...

§ 32.1-162.29. Form and audit of accounts and records - A. The accounts and records of the Board showing the...

§ 32.1-162.30. Annual report - The Board shall submit to the Governor and the General...

§ 32.1-162.31. Christopher Reeve Stem Cell Research Fund - A. From such funds as may be appropriated by the...

Chapter 5.4 - Animal Research

§ 32.1-162.32. Definitions - A. For purposes of this section, unless the context requires...

Chapter 6 - Environmental Health Services

§ 32.1-163. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 32.1-163.1. Personal liability of sanitarians defined - A sanitarian while acting within the scope of his employment...

§ 32.1-163.2. Long range plan for onsite sewage - In addition to the powers and duties provided in §...

§ 32.1-163.3. Identities of persons making certain reports to remain confidential - The identity of any person making a report of an...

§ 32.1-163.4. Procedures for application backlogs; individuals approved to conduct evaluations for septic system or other onsite sewage system permit applications - A. In any case where the local or district health...

§ 32.1-163.5. Onsite sewage evaluations - A. Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, for purposes of...

§ 32.1-163.6. Professional engineering of onsite treatment works - A. Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, for purposes of...

§ 32.1-164. Powers and duties of Board; regulations; fees; onsite soil evaluators; letters in lieu of permits; inspections; civil penalties - A. The Board shall have supervision and control over the...

§ 32.1-164.1. Appeals from denials of septic tank permits; inspections - A. Whenever administrative action is taken to deny a septic...

§ 32.1-164.1:01. Onsite Sewage Indemnification Fund - A. There is hereby created the Onsite Sewage Indemnification Fund,...

§ 32.1-164.1:1. Validity of certain septic tank permits - A. Any septic tank permit issued shall be valid for...

§ 32.1-164.1:2. Eligibility for betterment loans to repair or replace failing onsite sewage systems - A. The Board shall establish a betterment loan eligibility program...

§ 32.1-164.1:3. Permits for voluntary system upgrades - Any owner desiring to voluntarily upgrade an onsite or alternative...

§ 32.1-164.2. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2007, cc. 881 and 929, cl. 8,...

§ 32.1-164.8. Onsite Operation and Maintenance Fund established - There is hereby created in the state treasury a special...

§ 32.1-164.9. Regulations for chamber and bundled expanded polystyrene effluent distribution systems for onsite sewage systems - The Board of Health shall promulgate regulations for chamber and...

§ 32.1-165. Prior approval required before issuance of building permit; approved sewage system or nonconforming system - A. No county, city, town, or employee thereof shall issue...

§ 32.1-166. Agreements with federal agencies - The Board may enter into an agreement with any appropriate...

§ 32.1-166.1. Review Board; members - There is hereby established, in the Department of Health, the...

§ 32.1-166.2. Officers; secretary - The Review Board, under rules adopted by itself, shall elect...

§ 32.1-166.3. Oath - Before entering upon the discharge of their duties, all members...

§ 32.1-166.4. Meetings - The Review Board shall meet eight times per year to...

§ 32.1-166.5. Offices - The Review Board shall be furnished adequate space and quarters...

§ 32.1-166.6. Review Board to hear appeals - The Review Board shall hear all administrative appeals of denials...

§ 32.1-166.7. Subpoenas; witnesses; designation of subordinates - In any matter before it on appeal for hearing and...

§ 32.1-166.8. Record of decisions - A record of all decisions of the Review Board, properly...

§ 32.1-166.9. Interpretation of application of regulations; recommendation of modifications - The Review Board shall interpret the application of the provisions...

§ 32.1-166.10. Appeals fees - The Department shall establish a reasonable fee to be charged...

§ 32.1-167. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires...

§ 32.1-168. Exemptions - The provisions of this article shall not be applicable to...

§ 32.1-169. Supervision by Board - A. The Board shall have general supervision and control over...

§ 32.1-170. Regulations - A. The regulations of the Board governing waterworks, water supplies,...

§ 32.1-171. Technical assistance as to sources and purity - The Commissioner shall, upon request and without charge, provide technical...

§ 32.1-171.1. Waterworks operation fee required; special fund established; certain technical assistance program to be provided - A. Every owner of a waterworks shall pay to the...

§ 32.1-171.2. Water Supply Assistance Grant Fund established - A. There is hereby created in the state treasury a...

§ 32.1-172. Permit required - A. No owner shall establish, construct or operate any waterworks...

§ 32.1-173. Additional or amended permits - A. Any owner intending to make changes, alterations or improvements...

§ 32.1-173.1. Increase in charges to finance required changes - Any owner required to make any change, alteration or improvement...

§ 32.1-174. Revocation of permits - The Commissioner may revoke any permit issued pursuant to this...

§ 32.1-174.1. Bonds of permit holders - A. The Board may by regulation require owners holding or...

§ 32.1-174.2. Duties of electric utilities - No electric utility shall disconnect electrical service to any waterworks...

§ 32.1-174.3. Appointment of receiver for certain private waterworks; grounds for such appointment; petition and hearing, etc. - A. In addition to the remedies provided in § 32.1-27...

§ 32.1-174.4. Identification and elimination of chronically noncompliant waterworks - A. The Board shall promulgate regulations for the implementation of...

§ 32.1-175. Emergency orders; appeal - A. The Commissioner may issue emergency orders in any case...

§ 32.1-175.01. Issuance of special orders - Notwithstanding any other provision of law and to the extent...

§ 32.1-175.1. Notice to local government - A. Upon issuing a notice of violation of any provision...

§ 32.1-176. Penalty - In addition to the provisions of § 32.1-27, any owner...

§ 32.1-176.1. Short title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 32.1-176.2. Findings and policy - The General Assembly finds that the improper construction of private...

§ 32.1-176.3. Definitions - As used in this article: "Construction of wells" means acts...

§ 32.1-176.4. Powers and duties of Board and Department; regulations; fees - A. The Board shall adopt regulations pertaining to the location...

§ 32.1-176.5. Construction permit; local government authority to require analysis of water - A. Any person intending to construct a private well shall...

§ 32.1-176.5:1. Department to test for oil contamination; maintain lists of private laboratories - A. The Department shall disseminate the information on confirmed oil...

§ 32.1-176.5:2. Prohibition on private well construction - A. No private well shall be constructed within 50 feet...

§ 32.1-176.6. Inspection - The Department shall have the authority to conduct such inspections...

§ 32.1-176.7. Other agencies to cooperate with Department - The Department of Housing and Community Development and the State...

§ 32.1-176.8. Definitions - For the purposes of this article: "Coal ash pond" means...

§ 32.1-176.8:1. Private well and public water supply well testing near coal ash ponds; monitoring - A. For each private well or public water supply well...

§ 32.1-177. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1986, c. 492.

§ 32.1-187. Counties, cities and towns may create mosquito control districts - The governing body of any county, city or town, either...

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