CHAPTER 618

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 82 a chapter
numbered 3.1, containing sections numbered $2-47.1 through 82-47.8,
requiring immunization against certain diseases in certain counties,
providing how such immunization is to be effectuated; to provide
exemptions, and to provide penalties for violations.

[H 622]

Approved April 2, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding in Title 32 a chapter
numbered 3.1, containing sections numbered 32-47.1 through 82-47.8, as

follows:
Chapter 3.1

§ 32-47.1. All children who reside in any county having a population
of not more than seventeen thousand five hundred nor less than seventeen
thousand two hundred fifty shall be immunized against diphtheria, tetanus,
smallpox, pertussis (whooping cough), and poliomyelitis before reaching
the age of one year. ;

§ 82-47.2. A parent, guardian or person in loco parentis, of such
child of any age, as specified in § 32-47.1, shall present the child to a
physician and request such physician to administer to such child prepara-
tions sufficient to immunize such child against the diseases specified in
§ 32-47.1. If any child specified in § 32-47.1 has passed the age of one year
without having been so immunized, the parent, guardian or person in loco
parentis of such child shall, upon the effective date of this chapter, or,
upon establishing residence in such county as specified in this chapter,
present such child to a physician and request the physician to administer
preparations sufficient to immunize such child against such diseases. All
such preparations shall meet the standards required by the State Board
of Health, and shall be given according to the following formula:

One to two months of age—0.5 cubic centimeter (hereinafter referred
to as) diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus vaccine (hereinafter referred to
as D :

Two to three months of age—0.5 cc of DPT and 1.0 cc of poliomyelitis
vaccine;

Three to four months of age—0.5 cc of DPT and 1.0 cc of poliomyelitis
vaccine;

Five to six months of age—smallpox vaccination;

Ten to twelve months of age—1.0 cc of poliomyelitis vaccine;

Sixteen to eighteen months of age—0.5 cc of DPT;

Two years of age—1.0 cc poliomyelitis vaccine;

Five to six years of age—0.5 cc of DPT (on entrance to school).

§ 32-47.3. If the parent, guardian or person in loco parentis of a
child required to be immunized is unable to pay for the services of a private
physician or for the immunizing preparation, the child shall be taken to
the health office of any such county as specified in § 32-47.1 in which such
child resides, who shall administer such immunizing preparations without
charge. If such county has no health officer, then the governing body of
such county shall designate a private physician within such county to
carry out such immunization. Such governing body shall make available
sufficient funds to carry out the purposes of this section.

§ 32-47.4. The physician or health officer administering the prepara-
tions required by this chapter shall submit a certificate of immunization,
on forms to be furnished by the governing body of such county, and give
a copy thereof to the parent, guardian or person in loco parentis of the child.

32-47.5. No child shall be admitted to any school, public, private
or parochial within the county without the certificate required in § 32-47.4,
or other evidence in writing of the immunization of the child against
smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and poliomyelitis.

§ 32-47.6. (a) If a physician certifies in writing that a preparation
required to be administered under the provisions of this chapter is detri-
mental to the health of the child, then the requirements of this chapter
with respect to such preparation shall be inapplicable until such preparation
is found no longer to be detrimental to the health of such child.

b) The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any child whose
parent or parents, guardian or person in loco parentis are bona fide
members of a recognized religious organization whose teachings are con-
trary to the provisions of this chapter, and, as to such child, no certificate
as provided in § 32-47.5 shall be required as a condition precedent to
admission to such school.

_§ 32-47.7. The governing body of any such county is authorized to
maintain and distribute sufficient preparations in quantity and quality to
carry out the provisions of this chapter, and to make such reasonable
charge therefor as will cover the cost of maintaining and distributing such
preparations.
§ 32-47.8. Any person who violates any provision of this chapter
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided by law. Any
person who has been brought before a court for a violation of the pro-
visions hereof and who has been given leave to have the child immunized
in accordance herewith by a date certain, may, after such date without
such child being so immunized, be guilty of a separate offense for each
day during which such violation occurs after such date certain.