                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REPORT OF DISEASES INFECTING DEAD HUMAN BODIES (§ 32.1-37.1)

Upon transferring custody of any dead body to any person 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 person 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 negligence in failing to identify, as
herein prescribed, a dead body of a person known to have had an infectious
disease immediately prior to death.
		The Board of Health shall determine the infectious diseases for which
notification is required pursuant to this section.

HISTORY: 1988, c. 836; 1993, cc. 957, 993.