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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70790</law_id><section_number>32.1-37</section_number><catch_line>Reports by persons other than physicians</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>32.1-37.01</reference><reference>32.1-59</reference></referred_to_by><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 id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">person</span> in charge of any <span class="dictionary">medical care facility</span> shall immediately make or cause to be made a report of a disease required by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> to be reported when such information is available to that <span class="dictionary">person</span> and that <span class="dictionary">person</span> has reason to believe that no physician has reported such disease as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Reports by physicians and laboratory directors" href="/32.1-36/">32.1-36</a>. Such report shall be made to the local health director according to the provisions of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>. <a id="paragraph-255311" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-37/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The <span class="dictionary">person</span> in charge of any residential or day program, service or facility licensed or operated by any agency of the Commonwealth, school or summer camp as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/35.1-1/">35.1-1</a> shall immediately make or cause to be made a report of an outbreak of disease as defined by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>. Such report shall be made by rapid means to the local health director or to the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. <a id="paragraph-255312" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-37/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The <span class="dictionary">person</span> in charge of any <span class="dictionary">medical care facility</span>, residential or day program, service or facility licensed or operated by any agency of the Commonwealth, school, or summer camp as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/35.1-1/">35.1-1</a> may also voluntarily report additional information, including individual cases of communicable diseases, at the request of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Health for special surveillance or other epidemiological studies. <a id="paragraph-255313" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-37/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-49; 1979, c. 711; 1997, c. 271; 2008, cc. 367, 412.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
