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This law was first created in 1988. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 836 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1988 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1993, chapters 957 and 993.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":201771,"object_type":"law","relational_id":54641,"identifier":"32.1-37.1","token":"32.1\/2\/1\/32.1-37.1","url":"\/32.1-37.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/32.1-37.1\/","token":"32.1\/2\/1\/32.1-37.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Report of diseases infecting dead human bodies","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 32.1-37.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Upon transferring custody<\/span> of any dead body to any person<\/span> practicing funeral services or his agent, any hospital, nursing facility or nursing home, assisted living facility, or correctional facility shall, at the time of transfer, notify the person<\/span> practicing funeral services or his agent if the individual was known to have had immediately prior to death an infectious disease which may be transmitted through exposure to any bodily fluids.\n\t\tAny facility or members of its staff specified in this section shall not be liable for injury resulting from ordinary negligence<\/span> in failing to identify, as herein prescribed, a dead body of a person<\/span> known to have had an infectious disease immediately prior to death.\n\t\tThe Board<\/span> of Health shall determine the infectious diseases for which notification is required pursuant to this section.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREPORT OF DISEASES INFECTING DEAD HUMAN BODIES (\u00a7 32.1-37.1)\n\nUpon transferring custody of any dead body to any person practicing funeral\nservices or his agent, any hospital, nursing facility or nursing home, assisted\nliving facility, or correctional facility shall, at the time of transfer, notify\nthe person practicing funeral services or his agent if the individual was known\nto have had immediately prior to death an infectious disease which may be\ntransmitted through exposure to any bodily fluids.\n\t\tAny facility or members of its staff specified in this section shall not be\nliable for injury resulting from ordinary negligence in failing to identify, as\nherein prescribed, a dead body of a person known to have had an infectious\ndisease immediately prior to death.\n\t\tThe Board of Health shall determine the infectious diseases for which\nnotification is required pursuant to this section.\n\nHISTORY: 1988, c. 836; 1993, cc. 957, 993.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}