CHAPTER 317

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-276.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the exception of nurses, registered midwives, masseurs and cer-
tain other persons from the application of the provisions of Chapter
12 of Title 54 of the Code.

(S 231}

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 54-276.4 of the Code of Virginia. be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 54-276.4. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to apply to
or interfere with nurses, registered midwives, or masseurs who publicly
represent themselves as such, within the scope of their usual professional
activities, nor to any other persons in the lawful conduct of their particular
professions or businesses under State law, while actually engaged in
such profession or business. The scope of the usual professional activities
of registered professional nurses and graduate laboratory technicians
shall be deemed to include the taking of blood by means of veni-punctures,
the giving of intravenous infusions and intravenous injections, and the
insertion of Levin tubes, provided these acts are performed under the
orders of a person licensed to practice medicine.