CHAPTER 275

AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section num-
bered 54-275.1, to provide that the statutes regulating the practice
of the healing arts shall not be construed to prevent any State Medical
College from entering into contracts with physicians to teach therein,
nor to prohibit certain State agencies from furnishing medical care.

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Approved March 11, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: .
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a section
numbered 54-275.1 as follows: a

§ 54-275.1. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit,
forbid or prevent (a) any State Medical College from contracting with
any duly licensed physician to teach in such college on such terms as to
compensation as may be mutually satisfactory, which contract may
prescribe the extent, if any, to which the physcian may engage in private
practice, or (b) any institution, hospital, treatment center sanatorium or
other similar agency under the management and control of the State
Hospital Board, or any State Tuberculosis Sanatorium operated under the
provisions of Chapter 17 of Title 32, from employing or contracting with
any duly licensed physician to furnish professional services in the work of
the agency, or to furnish medical care to persons entitled to such care
from the agency.