Virginia Decodedhttps://vacode.org36850954.1-2979No liability for nonnegligent performance of operation2026Professions and OccupationsProfessions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health ProfessionsMedicine and Other Healing ArtsSexual Sterilization

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.