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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56784</law_id><section_number>54.1-3812.1</section_number><catch_line>Reporting of animal cruelty</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="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="38">Veterinary Medicine</unit></structure><text>
						<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></text><history>2010, c. 574; 2016, c. 100.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
