12103024D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 54.1-2400.01:1 as follows: §54.1-2400.01:1. Surgery defined; who may perform surgery. A. For the purposes of this subtitle, except as used in Chapter 38 (§54.1-3800 et seq.) related to veterinary medicine, "surgery" means the structural alteration of the human body by the incision, destruction, or excision of tissue for the purpose of diagnostic or therapeutic treatment of conditions or disease processes by any instrument causing localized alteration or transposition of live human tissue. B. No person shall perform surgery unless he is (i) licensed by the Board of Medicine as a doctor of medicine, osteopathy, or podiatry; (ii) licensed by the Board of Dentistry as a doctor of dentistry; (iii) jointly licensed by the Boards of Medicine and Nursing as a nurse practitioner; or (iv) acting pursuant to the orders and under the appropriate supervision of a licensed doctor of medicine, osteopathy, podiatry, or dentistry.
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