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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?041+ful+CHAP0622\">622<\/a> 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.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":226269,"object_type":"law","relational_id":61153,"identifier":"46.2-490.7","token":"46.2\/II\/3\/19\/46.2-490.7","url":"\/46.2-490.7\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/46.2-490.7\/","token":"46.2\/II\/3\/19\/46.2-490.7","dublin_core":{"Title":"Acts of owners, operators, officers, directors, partners, and instructors","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 46.2-490.7","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>If a licensee is a partnership or corporation, it shall be sufficient cause for the denial, <span class=\"dictionary\">suspension<\/span>, or <span class=\"dictionary\">revocation<\/span> of a <span class=\"dictionary\">clinic<\/span> license if any, <span class=\"dictionary\">owner<\/span>, <span class=\"dictionary\">operator<\/span>, officer, director, or trustee of the partnership or corporation, or any member in the case of a partnership, has committed any act or omitted any duty which would be cause for refusing, suspending, or revoking a license issued to him as an individual under this chapter. 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Each licensee shall be responsible\nfor the acts of any of his instructors while acting as his agent, if the clinic\napproved of those acts or had knowledge of those acts or other similar acts and\nafter such knowledge retained the benefit, proceeds, profits, or advantages\naccruing from those acts or otherwise ratified those acts.\n\nHISTORY: 2004, c. 622.","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}}