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2025 Code of Virginia
Title 63.2 - Welfare (Social Services)
Chapter 15 - Child Abuse and Neglect
Article 1. General Provisions
- § 63.2-1500. Repealed
- § 63.2-1501. Definitions
- § 63.2-1502. Establishment of Child-Protective Services Unit; duties
- § 63.2-1503. Local departments to establish child-protective services; duties
- § 63.2-1504. Child-protective services differential response system
- § 63.2-1505. Investigations by local departments
- § 63.2-1506. Family assessments by local departments
- § 63.2-1506.1. Human trafficking assessments by local departments
- § 63.2-1507. Cooperation by state entities
Article 2. Complaints
- § 63.2-1508. Valid report or complaint
- § 63.2-1509. Requirement that certain injuries to children be reported by physicians, nurses, teachers, etc.; penalty for failure to report
- § 63.2-1510. Complaints by others of certain injuries to children
- § 63.2-1511. Complaints of abuse and neglect against school personnel; interagency agreement
- § 63.2-1512. Immunity of person making report, etc., from liability
- § 63.2-1513. Knowingly making false reports; penalties
Article 3. Records
- § 63.2-1514. Retention of records in all reports; procedures regarding unfounded reports alleged to be made in bad faith or with malicious intent
- § 63.2-1515. Central registry; disclosure of information
Article 4. Procedures
- § 63.2-1516. Tape recording child abuse investigations
- § 63.2-1516.01. Investigation procedures involving person who is the subject of complaint
- § 63.2-1516.1. Investigation procedures when school employee is subject of the complaint or report; release of information in joint investigations
- § 63.2-1517. Authority to take child into custody
- § 63.2-1518. Authority to talk to child or sibling
- § 63.2-1519. Physician-patient and spousal privileges inapplicable
- § 63.2-1520. Photographs and X-rays of child; use as evidence
- § 63.2-1521. Testimony by child using two-way closed-circuit television
- § 63.2-1522. Admission of evidence of sexual acts with children
- § 63.2-1523. Use of videotaped statements of complaining witnesses as evidence
- § 63.2-1524. Court may order certain examinations
- § 63.2-1525. Prima facie evidence for removal of child custody
- § 63.2-1526. Appeals of certain actions of local departments
Article 5. Oversight and Evaluation of Program
- § 63.2-1527. Board oversight duties; Out-of-Family Investigations Advisory Committee
- § 63.2-1528. Repealed
- § 63.2-1529. Repealed
Article 6. Virginia Child Protection Accountability System
Article 7. Parental Child Safety Placement Program
- § 63.2-1531. Definitions
- § 63.2-1532. Parental Child Safety Placement Program; established
- § 63.2-1533. Parental child safety placement agreement; terms
- § 63.2-1534. Caregiver assessment
- § 63.2-1535. Termination of the parental child safety placement agreement and the alternative living arrangement
- § 63.2-1536. General provisions
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