§ 32.1-62 Procedure upon infant’s birth
In order to prevent ophthalmia neonatorum, the physician, nurse or midwife in charge of the delivery of a baby or, if none, the first attending physician shall, immediately after the baby’s birth, perform upon such baby the procedure prescribed by the Board. Such action shall be duly recorded in the medical record of the baby.
History
The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1979, chapter 711.
Code 1950, § 32-107; 1979, c. 711.