CODE OF VIRGINIA

WITHHOLDING INFORMATION ABOUT POSSIBLY RABID ANIMAL; PENALTY (§ 18.2-313.1)

It shall be unlawful for any person to (i) knowingly withhold information from,
or knowingly give false information to, any lawfully authorized governmental
agent which would reasonably lead to the discovery or location and capture of
any animal reasonably identifiable as one that has potentially exposed a human
being to rabies; (ii) upon the request of an animal control officer, a
law-enforcement officer, or an official of the Department of Health, willfully
fail to grant access to any animal owned, harbored, or kept by that person that
is suspected of having caused a rabies exposure to a human being; or (iii) upon
notice by an animal control officer, a law-enforcement officer, or an official
of the Department of Health, willfully fail to comply with a confinement,
isolation, or quarantine order.Any person violating the provisions of this
section shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: 1989, c. 491; 2010, c. 834.