CHAPTER 578

An Act to prescribe the duty of certain persons relating to the provision
of medical treatment for injured minors, and to provide a penalty for
violations.

[H 86]

Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. Any parent or other person having custody of a minor child
which child shows evidence of need for medical attention as the result of
physical injury inflicted by an act of any member of the household, whether
the injury was intentional or unintentional, who knowingly fails or refuses
to secure prompt and adequate medical attention, or who conspires to pre-
vent the securing of such attention, for such minor child, shall be guilty of
# misdemeanor; provided, however, that any parent or other person having
custody of a minor child that is being furnished Christian Science treat-
ment by a duly accredited Christian Science Practitioner shall not, for that
reason alone, be considered in violation of this section.