Virginia Administrative Code › Title 12 - HEALTH › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter 110 - REGULATION FOR THE IMMUNIZATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN › Part I - Definitions › Section 12VAC5-110-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter
					 shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
"Adequate immunization" means the immunization requirements
					 prescribed under
					 12VAC5-110-70.
"Admit" or "admission" means the official enrollment or
					 reenrollment for attendance at any grade level, whether full-time or part-time,
					 of any student by any school.
"Admitting official" means the school principal or his
					 designated representative if a public school; if a nonpublic school or child
					 care center, the principal, headmaster or director of the school or
					 center.
"Board" means the State Board of Health.
"Commissioner" means the State Health Commissioner.
"Compliance" means the completion of the immunization
					 requirements prescribed under
					 12VAC5-110-70.
"Conditional enrollment" means the enrollment of a student
					 for a period of 90 days contingent upon the student having received at least
					 one dose of each of the required vaccines and the student possessing a plan,
					 from a physician or local health department, for completing his immunization
					 requirements within the ensuing 90 calendar days. If the student requires more
					 than two doses of hepatitis B vaccine, the conditional enrollment period, for
					 hepatitis B vaccine only, shall be 180 calendar days.
"Documentary proof" means an appropriately completed copy
					 of the most current version of Form MCH 213G signed by a physician or his
					 designee, registered nurse, or an official of a local health department. A copy
					 of the immunization record signed or stamped by a physician or his designee,
					 registered nurse, or an official of a local health department indicating the
					 dates of administration including month, day, and year of the required
					 vaccines, shall be acceptable in lieu of recording these dates on Form MCH
					 213G, as long as the record is attached to Form MCH 213G and the remainder of
					 Form MCH 213G has been appropriately completed. A printout of an immunization
					 record from the provider's electronic health record can be accepted without a
					 signature or stamp. For a new student transferring from an out-of-state school,
					 any immunization record, which contains the exact date (month/day/year) of
					 administration of each of the required doses of vaccines, is signed by a
					 physician or his designee or registered nurse, and complies fully with the
					 requirements prescribed under
					 12VAC5-110-70 shall be
					 acceptable.
"Immunization" means the administration of a product
					 licensed by the FDA to confer protection against one or more specific
					 pathogens.
"Immunization schedules" means the 2017 Recommended
					 Immunization Schedules for Children and Adolescents Aged 18 Years or Younger
					 developed and published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
					 (CDC), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American
					 Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the American Academy of Family Physicians
					 (AAFP).
"Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine
					 in any of the 50 states or the District of Columbia.
"School" means:
1. Any public school from kindergarten through grade 12
					 operated under the authority of any locality within this Commonwealth;
2. Any private or religious school that offers instruction
					 at any level or grade from kindergarten through grade 12;
3. Any private or religious nursery school or preschool, or
					 any private or religious child care center required to be licensed by this
					 Commonwealth;
4. Any preschool classes or Head Start classes operated by
					 the school divisions within this Commonwealth; and
5. Any family day home or developmental center.
"Student" means any person who seeks admission to a school,
					 or for whom admission to a school is sought by a parent or guardian, and who
					 will not have attained the age of 20 years by the start of the school term for
					 which admission is sought.
"Twelve months of age" means the 365th day following the
					 date of birth. For the purpose of evaluating records, vaccines administered up
					 to four days prior to the first birthday (361 days following the date of birth)
					 will be considered valid.
Statutory Authority: §§
												22.1-271.2,
						32.1-46, and
						32.1-47 of the Code of
						Virginia.