CODE OF VIRGINIA

NO LIABILITY FOR NONNEGLIGENT PERFORMANCE OF OPERATION (§ 54.1-2979)

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.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 454, § 54-325.14; 1988, c. 765.