37.2-405 - License required; exception; license not transferable; operation of existing services; persons not to be admitted, etc., to unlicensed providers.
§ 37.2-405. License required; exception; license not transferable; operationof existing services; persons not to be admitted, etc., to unlicensedproviders.
A. No provider shall establish, conduct, maintain, or operate or continue tooperate in the Commonwealth any service, without being licensed under thisarticle, except where the provider is exempt from licensing.
B. No license issued under this article shall be assignable or transferable.
C. No person shall be admitted, placed, treated, maintained, housed, orotherwise kept, voluntarily or involuntarily, by any provider required to belicensed by subsection A, unless and until the provider is licensed by theCommissioner.
(1971, Ex. Sess., c. 181, § 37.1-183.1; 1976, c. 671; 1977, c. 346; 1980, c.582; 2001, cc. 486, 506; 2005, c. 716.)