Code of Virginia § 18.2-313.1. Withholding information about possibly rabid animal; penalty.
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It shall be unlawful for any person to
(i)knowingly withhold information from, or knowingly give false information to, any lawfully authorized governmental agent which would reasonably lead to the discovery or location and capture of any animal reasonably identifiable as one that has potentially exposed a human being to rabies;
(ii)upon the request of an animal control officer, a law-enforcement officer, or an official of the Department of Health, willfully fail to grant access to any animal owned, harbored, or kept by that person that is suspected of having caused a rabies exposure to a human being; or
(iii)upon notice by an animal control officer, a law-enforcement officer, or an official of the Department of Health, willfully fail to comply with a confinement, isolation, or quarantine order.
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.
1989, c. 491; 2010, c. 834 .