                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

LICENSE REQUIRED; EXCEPTION; LICENSE NOT TRANSFERABLE; OPERATION OF EXISTING
SERVICES; PERSONS NOT TO BE ADMITTED, ETC., TO UNLICENSED PROVIDERS (§
37.2-405)

A. No provider shall establish, conduct, maintain, or operate or continue to
operate in the Commonwealth any service, without being licensed under this
article, except where the provider is exempt from licensing.

B. No license issued under this article shall be assignable or transferable.

C. No person shall be admitted, placed, treated, maintained, housed, or
otherwise kept, voluntarily or involuntarily, by any provider required to be
licensed by subsection A, unless and until the provider is licensed by the
Commissioner.

HISTORY: 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 181, § 37.1-183.1; 1976, c. 671; 1977, c. 346;
1980, c. 582; 2001, cc. 486, 506; 2005, c. 716.