Code of Virginia (Last Updated:July 28, 2020) |
TITLE 54.1. Professions and Occupations |
SUBTITLE III. Professions and Occupations Regulated By Boards Within the Department of Health Professions |
CHAPTER 29. Medicine and Other Healing Arts |
ARTICLE 7. Sexual Sterilization |
SECTION 54.1-2979. No liability for nonnegligent performance of operation |
Subject to the rules of law applicable generally to negligence, no physician licensed by the Board of Medicine shall be either civilly or criminally liable by reason of having performed a vasectomy, salpingectomy, or other surgical sexual sterilization procedure upon any person in this Commonwealth as authorized by this article. 1981, c. 454, § 54-325.14; 1988, c. 765. |