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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?101+ful+CHAP0574\">574<\/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. 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 2016, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?161+ful+CHAP0100\">100<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":244213,"object_type":"law","relational_id":56784,"identifier":"54.1-3812.1","token":"54.1\/III\/38\/54.1-3812.1","url":"\/54.1-3812.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-3812.1\/","token":"54.1\/III\/38\/54.1-3812.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Reporting of animal cruelty","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-3812.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Any person regulated by the Board who makes a report of suspected animal cruelty or who provides records or information related to a report of suspected cruelty or testifies in any judicial proceeding arising from such report, records, or information shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability or administrative <span class=\"dictionary\">penalty<\/span> or <span class=\"dictionary\">sanction<\/span> on account of such report, records, information, or <span class=\"dictionary\">testimony<\/span>, unless such person acted in bad faith or with <span class=\"dictionary\">malicious<\/span> purpose.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nREPORTING OF ANIMAL CRUELTY (\u00a7 54.1-3812.1)\n\nAny person regulated by the Board who makes a report of suspected animal cruelty\nor who provides records or information related to a report of suspected cruelty\nor testifies in any judicial proceeding arising from such report, records, or\ninformation shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability or\nadministrative penalty or sanction on account of such report, records,\ninformation, or testimony, unless such person acted in bad faith or with\nmalicious purpose.\n\nHISTORY: 2010, c. 574; 2016, c. 100.","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}}