22.1-276.3 - Ineligibility of students to compete in athletic competitions.
§ 22.1-276.3. Ineligibility of students to compete in athletic competitions.
Any nonprofit corporation founded in Virginia in 1913 that currentlyorganizes and governs interscholastic activities among the public highschools shall develop, implement, and enforce rules requiring that a studentwho is a member of a school athletic team be ineligible for two school yearsto compete in interscholastic athletic competition, if it has been determinedby the school principal and division superintendent that the student usedanabolic steroids during the training period immediately preceding or duringthe sport season of the athletic team, unless such steroid was prescribed bya licensed physician for a medical condition.
(2005, c. 481.)