                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

STERILIZATION OPERATIONS FOR PERSONS 18 YEARS OR OLDER CAPABLE OF INFORMED
CONSENT (§ 54.1-2974)

It shall be lawful for any physician licensed by the Board of Medicine to
perform a vasectomy, salpingectomy, or other surgical sexual sterilization
procedure on any person 18 years of age or older who has the capacity to give
informed consent, when so requested in writing by such person. Prior to or at
the time of such request, a full, reasonable, and comprehensible medical
explanation as to the meaning and consequences of such an operation and as to
alternative methods of contraception shall be given by the physician to the
person requesting the operation.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 454, § 54-325.9; 1988, c. 765; 2013, c. 671.