Code of Virginia - Title 54.1 Professions And Occupations - Section 54.1-2979 No liability for nonnegligent performance of operation

§ 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.)

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