Subject to the rules of law applicable generally to negligence, no physician licensed by the Board of Medicine shall be either civilly or criminally liable by reason of having performed a vasectomy, salpingectomy, or other surgical sexual sterilization procedure upon any person in this Commonwealth as authorized by this article.

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Terms Used In Virginia Code 54.1-2979

1981, c. 454, § 54-325.14; 1988, c. 765.