CHAPTER 516

An Act to amend and reenact § 20-1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the filing of physician’s statement and the requirement of a serological

test as prerequisites to the issuance of a marriage license. a
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Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

an That § 20-1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows: .

§ 20-1. It shall, on and after the first day of August, nineteen hun-
dred and forty, be unlawful for the clerk of any court to issue a marriage
license until there shall have been filed with him, by or on behalf of each
of the two persons for whom the license is desired, a statement signed by a
physician, stating, without disclosing any medical findings, that as to such
person such test, or tests and examination have been made, and such
medical history obtained, as are required by this chapter to determine
whether there is evidence of syphilis, and that the information required by
§ 20-3 as to each such test, examination and medical history has been filed
with or transmitted to the State Department of Health by the physician.
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A standard serological test shall be made as to each such party for whom
the marriage license is desired.

_ Upon the expiration of three years from the date that any marriage
license shall have been issued, such license thereafter shall be conclusively
presumed to have been issued in compliance with this section, and the clerk
of the issuing court may destroy the statements required hereinabove as
@ prerequisite thereto.