                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SEX OFFENSES PROHIBITING WORKING ON SCHOOL PROPERTY; PENALTY (§ 18.2-370.4)

A. Every adult who has been convicted of an offense occurring on or after July
1, 2006, where the offender is more than three years older than the victim, of
one of the following qualifying offenses: (i) clause (iii) of subsection A of
&#xA7; 18.2-61, (ii) subdivision A 1 of &#xA7; 18.2-67.1, (iii) subdivision A 1
of &#xA7; 18.2-67.2, or (iv) any similar offense under the laws of any foreign
country or any political subdivision thereof, or the United States or any
political subdivision thereof, shall be forever prohibited from working or
engaging in any volunteer activity on property he knows or has reason to know is
a public or private elementary or secondary school or child day center property.
A violation of this section is punishable as a Class 6 felony. The provisions of
this section shall only apply if the qualifying offense was done in the
commission of, or as a part of the same course of conduct of, or as part of a
common scheme or plan as a violation of (a) subsection A of &#xA7; 18.2-47 or
18.2-48; (b) &#xA7; 18.2-89, 18.2-90, or 18.2-91; (c) &#xA7; 18.2-51.2; or (d)
any similar offense under the laws of any foreign country or any political
subdivision thereof, or the United States or any political subdivision thereof.

B. An employer of a person who violates this section, or any person who procures
volunteer activity by a person who violates this section, and the school or
child day center where the violation of this section occurred, are immune from
civil liability unless they had actual knowledge that such person had been
convicted of an offense listed in subsection A.

HISTORY: 2006, cc. 853, 857, 914; 2017, c. 507.