                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REPORTS BY PERSONS OTHER THAN PHYSICIANS (§ 32.1-37)

A. The person in charge of any medical care facility shall immediately make or
cause to be made a report of a disease required by the Board to be reported when
such information is available to that person and that person has reason to
believe that no physician has reported such disease as provided in &#xA7;
32.1-36. Such report shall be made to the local health director according to the
provisions of the Board.

B. The person 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; 35.1-1 shall immediately make or cause to be made a report of
an outbreak of disease as defined by the Board. Such report shall be made by
rapid means to the local health director or to the Commissioner.

C. The person in charge of any medical care facility, residential or day
program, service or facility licensed or operated by any agency of the
Commonwealth, school, or summer camp as defined in &#xA7; 35.1-1 may also
voluntarily report additional information, including individual cases of
communicable diseases, at the request of the Department of Health for special
surveillance or other epidemiological studies.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-49; 1979, c. 711; 1997, c. 271; 2008, cc. 367, 412.