Chap. 340.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new section
numbered 1515-a, requiring certain persons to report certain information con-
cerning communicable diseases, and imposing penalty for failure so to do.

[H B 358]
Approved March 31, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new section numbered
fifteen hundred and fifteen-a, as follows:

Section 1515-a. When cases of communicable disease to be reported
by persons other than physicians—When no physician is in attendance it
shall be the duty of the superintendent or other person in charge of any
school, institution, hotel, boarding-house, camp or vessel who shall have
actual knowledge that any person in such school, institution, hotel,
boarding house or camp, or on such vessel, as the case may be, is pres-
ently affected with any communicable disease, to report immediately the
name and address of such affected person to the local health officer ;
except that in those cities, towns, and counties which do not have
local health departments, such report shall be made to the secretary of
the local board of health or to the State health commissioner.

Any person wilfully failing to comply with the provisions of this
section shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for
each offense.