§ 8.01-227.5 Persons who may bring action; persons against whom actions may be brought; damages recoverable
A. A parent or legal custodian may bring an action for damages incurred because of his child’s unlawful use of a controlled substance while under the age of eighteen against a natural person age eighteen years or older who sold, administered, furnished or knowingly participated in the unlawful distribution of a controlled substance to the child.
B. A parent or legal custodian entitled to bring an action under this article may recover damages limited to physical and emotional pain and suffering, the cost of treatment and rehabilitation and medical expenses, proximately caused to the parent or legal custodian by the child’s unlawful use of a controlled substance.
History
This law was first created in 2002. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 863 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.
2002, c. 863.