Each local department of health shall make available to its local animal control officer and shall report to the State Department of Health any exposure report involving a dog bite to a human that is maintained with such local department of health through a state-mandated retention period.

Terms Used In Virginia Code 3.2-6562.2

  • Animal: means any nonhuman vertebrate species except fish. See Virginia Code 3.2-6500
  • Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. See Virginia Code 3.2-100
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245

2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 464.