                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

TREATMENT OF PRISONER WITH CONTAGIOUS DISEASE (§ 53.1-34)

The Director may, upon the application of the person in charge of any state
correctional facility who has been requested in writing so to do by the
physician at such facility, have removed from such facility any prisoner therein
who has contracted any contagious or infectious disease dangerous to the public
health to some place to be designated by the Director. When any prisoner is so
removed, he shall be safely kept and treated for such disease and, as soon as he
recovers his health, be returned to such facility unless the term of his
imprisonment has expired, in which event he shall be discharged, but not until
all danger of his spreading contagion has passed. Expenses incurred by reason of
this section shall be borne by the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 53-94; 1970, c. 648; 1979, c. 109; 1982, c. 636.