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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54641</law_id><section_number>32.1-37.1</section_number><catch_line>Report of diseases infecting dead human bodies</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="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Disease Prevention and Control</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Reporting of Diseases</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Upon transferring <span class="dictionary">custody</span> of any dead body to any <span class="dictionary">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 <span class="dictionary">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.
		Any facility or members of its staff specified in this section shall not be liable for injury resulting from ordinary <span class="dictionary">negligence</span> in failing to identify, as herein prescribed, a dead body of a <span class="dictionary">person</span> known to have had an infectious disease immediately prior to death.
		The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Health shall determine the infectious diseases for which notification is required pursuant to this section.</p></section></text><history>1988, c. 836; 1993, cc. 957, 993.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
