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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68537</law_id><section_number>22.1-271.1</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="22.1">Education</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="14">Pupils</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Health Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>For the purpose of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Immunization requirements" href="/22.1-271.2/">22.1-271.2</a>:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Admit</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">admission</span>&#x201D; means the official enrollment or reenrollment for attendance at any grade level, whether full-time or part-time, of any <span class="dictionary">student</span> by any <span class="dictionary">school</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Admitting official</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">school</span> principal or his designated representative if a public <span class="dictionary">school</span>; if a nonpublic <span class="dictionary">school</span> or child-care center, the principal, headmaster or director of the <span class="dictionary">school</span> or center.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Documentary proof</span>&#x201D; means written certification that a <span class="dictionary">student</span> has been <span class="dictionary">immunized</span>, such certificate to be on a form provided by the State <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Health and signed by the licensed immunizing physician or an employee of the immunizing local health <span class="dictionary">department</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Student</span>&#x201D; means any person who seeks <span class="dictionary">admission</span> to a <span class="dictionary">school</span>, or for whom <span class="dictionary">admission</span> to a <span class="dictionary">school</span> is sought by a <span class="dictionary">parent</span> or guardian, and who will not have attained the age of 20 years by the start of the <span class="dictionary">school</span> term for which <span class="dictionary">admission</span> is sought.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Immunized</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">immunization</span>&#x201D; means initial <span class="dictionary">immunization</span> and any boosters or reimmunizations required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Immunization of patients against certain diseases" href="/32.1-46/">32.1-46</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">School</span>&#x201D; means (i) any public <span class="dictionary">school</span> from kindergarten through grade 12 operated under the authority of any locality within the Commonwealth, (ii) any private or religious <span class="dictionary">school</span> that offers instruction at any level or grade from kindergarten through grade twelve, and (iii) any private or religious nursery <span class="dictionary">school</span> or preschool, or any private or religious child-care center required to be licensed by the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>1982, c. 510; 1983, c. 433; 2005, c. 928.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
