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§ 63.2-1500. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2022, c. 264, cl. 2.
§ 63.2-1501. Definitions - As used in this chapter unless the context requires a...
§ 63.2-1502. Establishment of Child-Protective Services Unit; duties - There is created a Child-Protective Services Unit in the Department...
§ 63.2-1503. Local departments to establish child-protective services; duties - A. Each local department shall establish child-protective services under a...
§ 63.2-1504. Child-protective services differential response system - The Department shall implement a child-protective services differential response system...
§ 63.2-1505. Investigations by local departments - A. An investigation requires the collection of information necessary to...
§ 63.2-1506. Family assessments by local departments - A. A family assessment requires the collection of information necessary...
§ 63.2-1506.1. Human trafficking assessments by local departments - A. If a report or complaint is based upon information...
§ 63.2-1507. Cooperation by state entities - All law-enforcement departments and other state and local departments, agencies,...
§ 63.2-1508. Valid report or complaint - A. A valid report or complaint means the local department...
§ 63.2-1509. Requirement that certain injuries to children be reported by physicians, nurses, teachers, etc.; penalty for failure to report - A. The following persons who, in their professional or official...
§ 63.2-1510. Complaints by others of certain injuries to children - Any person who suspects that a child is an abused...
§ 63.2-1511. Complaints of abuse and neglect against school personnel; interagency agreement - A. If a teacher, principal or other person employed by...
§ 63.2-1512. Immunity of person making report, etc., from liability - Any person making a report pursuant to § 63.2-1509, a...
§ 63.2-1513. Knowingly making false reports; penalties - A. Any person fourteen years of age or older who...
§ 63.2-1514. Retention of records in all reports; procedures regarding unfounded reports alleged to be made in bad faith or with malicious intent - A. The local department shall retain the records of all...
§ 63.2-1515. Central registry; disclosure of information - The central registry shall contain such information as shall be...
§ 63.2-1516. Tape recording child abuse investigations - Any person who is suspected of abuse or neglect of...
§ 63.2-1516.01. Investigation procedures involving person who is the subject of complaint - The local department shall, at the initial time of contact...
§ 63.2-1516.1. Investigation procedures when school employee is subject of the complaint or report; release of information in joint investigations - A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section,...
§ 63.2-1517. Authority to take child into custody - A. A physician or child-protective services worker of a local...
§ 63.2-1518. Authority to talk to child or sibling - Any person required to make a report or conduct an...
§ 63.2-1519. Physician-patient and spousal privileges inapplicable - In any legal proceeding resulting from the filing of any...
§ 63.2-1520. Photographs and X-rays of child; use as evidence - In any case of suspected child abuse, photographs and X-rays...
§ 63.2-1521. Testimony by child using two-way closed-circuit television - A. In any civil proceeding involving alleged abuse or neglect...
§ 63.2-1522. Admission of evidence of sexual acts with children - A. In any civil proceeding involving alleged abuse or neglect...
§ 63.2-1523. Use of videotaped statements of complaining witnesses as evidence - A. In any civil proceeding involving alleged abuse or neglect...
§ 63.2-1524. Court may order certain examinations - The court may order psychological, psychiatric and physical examinations of...
§ 63.2-1525. Prima facie evidence for removal of child custody - In the case of a petition in the court for...
§ 63.2-1526. Appeals of certain actions of local departments - A. A person who is suspected of or is found...
§ 63.2-1527. Board oversight duties; Out-of-Family Investigations Advisory Committee - A. The Board shall be responsible for establishing standards for...
§ 63.2-1528. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2012, cc. 803 and 835, cl. 73.
§ 63.2-1529. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2009, c. 32.
§ 63.2-1530. Virginia Child Protection Accountability System - A. The Virginia Child Protection Accountability System (the System) is...