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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 54.1 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 29 - Medicine and Other Healing Arts
§ 54.1-2979. No liability for nonnegligent performance of operation
Universal Citation: VA Code § 54.1-2979 (2019)
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, ยง 54-325.14; 1988, c. 765.
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