32.1-37.1 - Report of diseases infecting dead human bodies. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-37.1. Report of diseases infecting dead human bodies.

Upon transferring custody of any dead body to any person practicing funeralservices or his agent, any hospital, nursing facility or nursing home,assisted living facility, or correctional facility shall, at the time oftransfer, notify the person practicing funeral services or his agent if theindividual was known to have had immediately prior to death an infectiousdisease which may be transmitted through exposure to any bodily fluids.

Any facility or members of its staff specified in this section shall not beliable for injury resulting from ordinary negligence in failing to identify,as herein prescribed, a dead body of a person known to have had an infectiousdisease immediately prior to death.

The Board of Health shall determine the infectious diseases for whichnotification is required pursuant to this section.

(1988, c. 836; 1993, cc. 957, 993.)