Chap. 531.—An ACT to amend the Code of bes orn by adding a new section
numbered 1619-a, authorizing the State Board of Medical Examiners to suspend
or revoke the certificate or license of or to prosecute for illegal practice certain

rsons responsible for or implicated in oe practices for which a hospital
icense has been suspended or revoked by the State Board of Health. [S 106]

Approved April 6, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1, That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a new section
numbered sixteen hundred nineteen-a as follows:

Section 1619-a. Suspension or revocation of certificates for violation
of Virginia Hospital Licensing and Inspection Law; Appeals.—When-
ever the State Board of Health has suspended or revoked any license
granted under the provisions of chapter fifteen of the Acts of Assembly,
Extra Session nineteen hundred forty-seven, known as the Virginia
Hospital Licensing and Inspection Law, and such suspension or revoca-
tion resulted from a violation of any provision of this chapter, or because
of illegal practice, or conduct or practices detrimental to the welfare of
any patient or inmate in such hospital, a report of such action shall be
made by the State Board of Health to the Board of Medical Examiners.
If it appears from such report, or from other evidence produced before
the Board of Medical Examiners, that the legally responsible head of
such hospital is a practitioner of any branch of the healing arts, it may
in its discretion suspend or revoke the certificate or license to practice
of such person, or prosecute such person if unlicensed. The Board may
suspend or revoke the certificate of or prosecute for unlicensed practice
any person subject to the laws of Virginia regulating the practice of the
healing arts who is practicing in or employed by such hospital if such
practitioner or employee is guilty of, responsible for, or implicated in
illegal practices for which the hospital license has been suspended or
revoked. An appeal from the action of the Board in suspending or revok-
ing any such certificate or license may be had, and a new certificate or
ene granted, as provided in section sixteen hundred nineteen of this
chapter.