Children -- Institutional care

1954
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 37-48.1, authorizing the State Hospital Board to receive for, and expend on behalf of, certain patients in institutions under its control, certain grants, payments, and other benefits.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 22-7, 22-38, 22-43 as amended, 22-48.1, 22-62, 22-98, 22-122, 22-204, 22-218, 22-223, and 22-258.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the public schools.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 68-78.1, so as to permit local boards of public welfare to accept and expend certain funds or money, and so as to require an anata
An Act to amend and reenact § 81-5 of the Code of Virginia, relating to appointment of guardians.
An Act to amend and reenact § 63-119, as amended, § 68-145, and § 68-209, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the determination of amount of Ol Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief so as to exempt certain income in making such determinations and so as to provide how such determinations shall be made for aid to the permanently and totally disabled.

1956
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2, 4, as amended, 12 and 18 of Chapter 428 of the Acts of Assembly of 1986, approved March 80, 1986, which provided a charter for the town of Vinton, the sections relating to powers of the town council, and enactment of ordinances and emergency measures.
An Act to amend and eomnaal § 22-9.8 of the Code of Virginia, which was enacted by Chapter 148 of the Acts of Assembly of 1954, so as to provide for an Overall Advisory Council on Needs of Handicapped Children, its composition, and its duties, and to make an appropria-tion.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 44 Proposing amendments to §§ 155 and 161 of the Constitution of Virginia.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-867, 68-868 and 68-869, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain industrial schools and corrective institutions.
AN ACT for the relief of Mrs. Elsie S. Carstens and others.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-348 and 63-851, as amended, and 63-356.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to requirements for bringing petition for adoption, how consent for adoption given and adoption by certain spouses.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.41 and §§ 16-172.42 and 16-172.48, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 16-172.42:1, all relating to the transfer of cases involving a child or minor.
An Act to amend and reenact § 22-142 of the Code of Virginia, relating to adjustment of school funds when nonresident pupils attend schools of another locality.
An Act to permit the Cities of Hampton, Newport News and Warwick, acting pursuant to Section 15-220 et seq. of the Code of Virginia, 1950, and Acts Amendatory thereto, to incorporate in the provisions of the agreement providing for consolidation of all three cities certain optional provisions which may be set forth in whole or in part in any agreement submitted in a referendum on consolidation of all three cities, and to provide for the provisions which may be included
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 22-9.4, to provide for public transportation of certain handicapped children who attend special classes.
An Act to revise, rearrange, amend and recodify the general laws of Virginia, relating to courts not of record; to that end to repeal Title 16 of the Code of Virginia, which title includes Chapters 1 to 6 and §§ 16-1 to 16-129.1 and Chapter 7 including §§ 16-172.1 to 16-172.84, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, as amended, which title relates to courts not of record; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto in lieu of the foregoing title, chapters and sections of the Code re- pealed by this act a new title numbered 16.1, which title includes eight new chapters numbered 1 to 8, both inclusive, and new sections numbered §§ 16.1-1 to 16.1-217, both inclusive, relating to courts not of record; to prescribe when such revision and recodification shall become effective; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 16-172.42:1, prescribing the powers of certain courts in cases involving juvenile offenders; to amend and reenact § 16-172.48, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, so as to authorize trial of certain juvenile offenders as though they were adults.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-272, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to suspension of sentence and probation.
An Act to amend and reenact § 40-96 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the employment of children under the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 40-100.6, to provide for the issuance of part time employment certificates to certain children under certain conditions.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 16-172.71, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to method of providing probation service for juveniles.
An Act to amend and reenact § 58-82 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the establishing of, and constructing buildings for, farms for misdemeanants and felons.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 18-118.1, prohibiting the gift, sale or distribution of certain printed matter to minors under the age of eighteen years, to prohibit compulsory receipt of such printed matter as a condition to the sale or delivery of other articles, and providing penalties for violation.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 68-291 and 68-292 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal §§ 68-289 and 68-290 of the Code of Virginia, all of which sections relate to delinquent, dependent and neglected children.
An Act to authorize the establishment of a joint or regional detention facilities for juveniles; to provide for the appointment of a commission as the governing body of such facilities and prescribe its powers and duties; to authorize participating political subdivisions to appropriate funds and the proceeds of bond issues to the commission; and to require certain records and reports.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-126, 68-150, 68-190 and 68-213 of the Code of Virginia, relating to aid paid to certain persons.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.80, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, so as to provide for the issuance of summons to juveniles charged with violation of the traffic laws.
An Act to amend and reenact § 40-104 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certificates of physical fitness required in connection with employment of children.
An Act to amend and reenact § 2 of Chapter 198 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, approved March 14, 1950, which provided a new charter for the city of Martinsville, the section relating to the powers of ue sig
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 16-172.11, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the clerk, bailiff and other employees of juvenile courts.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 68-298.2, relating to the acceptance and expenditure by the State Board of Welfare and Institutions of certain funds for delinquents, dependent and neglected children.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 37 an article numbered 4.1, consisting of §§ 37-25.1 through 37-25.6, to create the Virginia Treatment Center for Children; to confer certain powers and duties on the State Hospital Board and the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals with respect thereto; to provide for a Director and other personnel; to provide the conditions for admission or transfer of emotionally disturbed and mentally ill children thereto and their release therefrom; and to establish responsibility for the payment of costs of care and treatment at such Center.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 19-8 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the time when prosecutions for certain crimes shall be commenced.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 16-172.44, as amended, and 16-172.47 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain decrees and orders affecting children or minors, to the transfer of certain information upon the commitment of children.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-106 and 68-109 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain reimbursements of localities by the State, and purposes for which appropriations to the Department of Welfare and Institutions may be expended.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 63-849, as amended, and 68-854 of the Code of Virginia, relating to investigations and visitations in adoption matters so as to require certain persons and agencies to make such investigations and visitations under certain circumstances.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.28, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the jurisdiction of juvenile and domestic relations courts.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-101, as amended, and 68-105 of the Code of Virginia, relating, respectively, to definitions and appropriations under the Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Law
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 16-172.64, and 16-172.65 and 16-172.67, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to establishment of plans for detention facilities, provisions required for detention of children, and expenses of detention homes, so as to provide for the development of regional detention facilities and for reimbursement of counties and cities in connection therewith, and to authorize the State Board of Welfare and Institutions to prescribe minimum standards for detention facilities and prohibit detention of children in facilities failing to meet such standards, and for the enforcement of orders of the Board issued in connection therewith.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 40-109 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain prohibited employment.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 22-241 and 22-242 of the Code of Virginia, relating to employment of certain specialized personnel by counties, cities and towns in connection with schools, and reimbursement by the State of a portion of the cost thereof.
An Act to amend and reenact § 4 and §§ 18 and 14, as amended, Chapter 288 of the Acts of Assembly of 1924, approved March 1924, which provided a charter for the town of Salem, the section relating to powers of the town and town ordinances.
AN ACT to authorize the Governor to execute, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, a certain compact relating to juveniles; to declare the policy of the Commonwealth with regard to certain juveniles; to authorize the appointment of a compact administrator and prescribe his powers and duties; to provide for the payment of certain obligations, to prescribe the jurisdiction of certain courts in certain cases, and to authorize certain agreements with regard to the return of run away juveniles.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to powers of boards of supervisors.
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding to Title 81 thereof a new chapter immediately following Chapter 8, to be designated as Chapter 4 and containing seven sections numbered 81-19 through 81-25, relating to gifts of securities to minors.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 57-20 of the Code of Virginia relating to quantity of land which certain associations may hold; and to validate certain holdings.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46-868, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the application of minors for operators’ licenses
An Act to amend and reenact § 68-809, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to district homes for the care and maintenance of certain persons, their location; members of home board and their compensation and expenses.
An Act to amend and reenact § 40-109 of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain employment prohibited for children under eighteen years of age.
An Act to appropriate the public revenue for the two years ending respectively on the thirtieth day of June, 1957, and the thirtieth day June, 1958.

1956es
An Act to amend and reenact § 37-125.5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to contracts by the Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals for the care of patients.
An Act to amend and reenact § 15-8, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the powers of boards of supervisors.
An Act to authorize certain localities to raise sums of money by a tax on property, subject to local taxation, to be expended by local school authorities for educational purposes including cost of transportation, and to impose penalties for violations.
An Act to require the inclusion in school budgets of amounts sufficient for the payment of grants for educational purposes; to provide for local governing bodies raising money for educational purposes and making appropriations therefor; to provide for the expenditure of such funds for payment of such grants and transportation costs under certain circumstances; to empower the State Board of Education to make rules and regulations and pay such grants; to provide for the withholding of certain funds and the use thereof; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act.
An Act to authorize local school boards to expend funds designated for public school purposes for such grants in furtherance of elementary and secondary education as may be permitted by law without first obtaining authority therefor from the tax levying body.
An Act to create a Pupil Placement Board and confer upon it powers as to enrollment or placement of pupils in the public schools and determination of school attendance districts, and to provide for administrative procedure and remedies for pupils seeking enrollment in a school or a change from one school to another school.
An Act to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 716 of the Acts of Assembly of 1956, approved March 31, 1956, relating to the appropriation of the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the thirtieth day of June, 1957, and the thirtieth day of June, 1958, so as to provide that the sums appropriated in Items 188, 184, 187, 188 and 148 shall be for the maintenance of an efficient system of elementary and secondary schools, respectively; to establish and define an elementary and secondary public school system; to prohibit the expenditure of any of the funds appropriated by such items in support of any system of public schools which is not efficient; and to provide for and prescribe the conditions under which such funds may be expended for educational purposes in furtherance of education of Virginia students in elementary and secondary nonsectarian private schools.

1958
AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 15 thereof a new Chapter numbered 5.1, containing new sections numbered 15-77.1 through 15-77.76, providing powers for certain municipal corporations, and providing the procedure for requesting the General Assembly to confer such powers on such municipal corporations.
An Act to amend and reenact § 20-61.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the support of children of unwed parents by the father of such children.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered 68-869.1, so as to permit an allowance for work done by wards of the four State training schools and to appropriate funds.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-201 of the Code of Virginia, relating to construction, maintenance and operation of detention facilities for juveniles.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 16.1-194 through 16.1-197 of the Code of Virginia, relating to arrest, transportation, confinement or detention and release of juveniles.
An Act to amend and reenact § 68-878.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to offenses committed by juveniles in the custody of the Department of Welfare and Institutions.
An Act to amend and reenact § 18-6 of the Code of Virginia, relating to causing or encouraging children to commit offenses.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-162 of the Code of Virginia, relating to withholding certain records of juvenile courts from public inspection.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-209 of the Code of Virginia, relating to reports of court officials in juvenile cases.
An Act to amend and reenact § 37-96 of the Code of Virginia, relating to residence of children born in certain hospitals and colonies
An Act to amend and reenact § 81-10 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the disbursement of funds of infants beyond income so as to allow clerks of courts to appoint guardians ad litem.
An Act to amend and reenact § 68-105, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to local appropriation for public assistance.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 26-A of Chapter 343, as amended, of the Acts of Assembly of 1928, approved March 21, 1928, being the charter of the city of Lynchburg, relating to the juvenile and domestic relations court.
An Act to amend and reenact § 68-246 of the Code of Virginia, relating to confidential records of child welfare agencies.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 40-97 and 40-100.8 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the employment of children under eighteen years of age.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 638-106, 68-119, 63-145, 68-188 and 68-209, all as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to the reimbursement of localities by the State for old age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, aid to the disabled and general relief, and to the determination of the amount of relief in such case.
An Act to amend and reenact § 6-183 of the Code of Virginia, relating to shares issued in trust for another; payment to a minor by omitting the age limitation as to said minor; and by making said section applicable to federal savings and loan associations.
AN ACT to repeal §§ 31-19 through 31-25 of the Code of Virginia, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 4 of Title 31, new sections numbered 31-19.1 through 31-19.12, the repealed and new sections all relating to gifts to minors.
An Act to amend and reenact § 63-78.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the acceptance and expenditure of certain funds on behalf of children entrusted to local boards of public welfare when no guardian has been appointed.
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 22-218, 22-219 and 22-220 of the Code of Virginia, concerning persons who shall be admitted to public schools in counties, cities, and towns operating as separate school districts; and to add three new sections to the Code of Virginia, between §§ 22-218 and 22-219, designated §§ 22-218.1, and 22-218.2 and 22-218.8, concerning persons who may be admitted to public schools in counties, cities, and towns operating as separate school atte
An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of Washington County to convey certain property of the county; and to prescribe the terms and conditions of such conveyance.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-176 of the Code of Virginia, which was enacted in Chapter 587 of the Acts of Assembly of 1956, relating to presentment of certain children to grand juries.
AN ACT to amend and reenact § 40-109, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to prohibited employment of certain minors, so as to permit, in connection with general or school work training types of employment certificates, employment of girls sixteen and over in restaurants and hotel food service departments under certain circumstances.

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 68-879, 63-380, 63-382 and 63-385 of the Code of Virginia, requiring the Medical College of Virginia to establish and maintain a mobile psychiatric clinic, providing for the purchase of supplies and equipment, cooperation of certain agencies, and teaching of students and opportunities of research, so as to transfer the duties formerly imposed upon the Medical College of Virginia and the Board thereof upon the Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals and the State Hospital Board.
An Act to amend and reenact § 5 of Chapter 303 of the Acts of Assembly of 1944, approved March 29, 1944, relating to benefits payable under retirement and pension systems of certain counties.

1959es
An Act to amend and reenact § 37-125.5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to contracts by the Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals for the care of patients.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 65-7.1, to define change in condition as used in the Workmen’s Compensation Act.
An Act to authorize certain localities to raise sums of money by a tax on property, subject to local taxation, to be expended by local school authorities for educational purposes including cost of transportation, and to impose penalties for violations.
An act to provide that no child shall be required to attend integrated schools.
An Act to authorize local school boards to expend funds designated for public school purposes for such grants in furtherance of elementary and secondary education as may be permitted by law without first obtaining authority therefor from the tax levying body.
An Act to amend and reenact § 1 of Chapter 716 of the Acts of Assembly of 1956, approved March 81, 1956, relating to the appropriation of the public revenue for the two years ending, respectively, on the thirtieth day of June, 1957, and the thirtieth day of June, 1958, so as to provide that the sums appropriated in Items 188, 184, 187, 188 and 148 shall be for the maintenance of an efficient system of elementary and secondary schools, respectively; to establish and define an elementary and secondary public school system; to prohibit the expenditure of any of the funds appropriated by such items in support of any system of public schools which is not efficient; and to provide for and prescribe the conditions under which such funds may be expended for educational purposes in furtherance of education of Virginia students in elementary and secondary nonsectarian private schools.

1960
An Act to revise, rearrange, amend and recodify the general laws of Virginia relating to crimes and offenses generally; to that end to repeal Title 18 of the Code of Virginia, which title includes Chapters 1 to 11 and §§ 18-1 to 18-366, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, as amended, which title relates to crimes and offenses generally; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto in lieu of the foregoing title, chapters and sections of the Code repealed by this act a new title numbered 18.1, which title includes eight new chapters numbered 1 to 8, both inclusive, and new sections numbered §§ 18.1-1 to 18.1-429, both inclusive, relating to crimes and offenses generally; to prescribe when such revision and recodification shall become effective; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act.
An Act to amend and reenact § 20-48 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the minimum age of marriage with the consent of one’s parents.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section numbered 16.1-178.2, so as to permit juvenile and domestic relations courts and the Department of Welfare and Institutions to commit certain juveniles to the Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals under certain circumstances.
An Act to amend and reenact § 87-128, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to board of certain State hospital and colony patients in private homes.
An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-857 of the Code of Virginia, relating to licensing persons under eighteen and allowing cities to prohibit them from driving so as to allow certain counties to prohibit such persons from driving.
An Act to amend and reenact § 16.1-158 of the Code of Virginia, relating to jurisdiction of juvenile courts.
An Act to provide for recovering from the parents of certain minors damages for malicious or wilful destruction of public property by such minors.
An Act to amend and reenact § 68-101, as amended, defining terms used in the Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Law, so as to specifically include hospitalization as an element of medical care in the definitions of certain categories of public assistance.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 37-1.1 and 37-5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to certain definitions of certain State institutions and to continuation of the Petersburg Training School.
An Act to amend and reenact § 63-369.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to allowance for work done by wards of State training schools, so as to permit similar allowance for wards of the State placed in foster homes by the Department of Welfare and Institutions.
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 46.1-255, 46.1-256, 46.1-265, 46.1-267, 46.1-268 and 46.1-287 of the Code of Virginia, relating to regulation of flares, reflectors and other signals for stopped vehicles and to other lights required on vehicles.
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.1-180.2, authorizing the governing bodies of certain counties to adopt such ordinances regulating traffic upon the highways of such counties as it deems necessary for the protection of school children, and to prescribe certain limitations.