CHAPTER 616

An Act to authorize certain counties, cities, and towns to pay funds to
the Commonwealth, or any political subdivision or agency thereof,
and to authorize the Commonwealth or any political subdivision or
agency thereof to receive funds for certain purposes. IH 923]

Approved April 4, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. § 1. The governing bodies of the following counties and cities, and
the governing bodies of any cities and towns located within or adjacent
to any of the following counties may appropriate funds to be paid to the
Commonwealth of Virginia, or any political subdivision or agency thereof,
and may pay or donate such funds to the Commonwealth for the purpose
of acquiring land located in one or more of the said counties or cities for
the site of a State hospital for the custody, care and treatment of mentally
retarded persons: Gloucester, James City, Mathews, York, Accomack, Isle
of Wight, Nansemond, Northampton and Southampton; and the cities of
Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Franklin,
Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach. The Commonwealth or any po-
litical subdivision or agency thereof, is hereby authorized to accept and
receive funds from the governing bodies of any of the said named counties
and any town within its boundaries, and to accept and receive funds from
the governing bodies of the cities and towns above mentioned for the pur-
pose of acquiring land located in one or more of the said counties or cities
for the site of a State hospital for the custody, care and treatment of
mentally retarded persons.

The governing bodies of any of the named counties, or any towns
located within their boundaries, and the governing bodies of the cities
herein named, may convey to the Commonwealth, or any political sub-
division or agency thereof, by deed of gift to be accepted by the Governor
on behalf of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision or agency
thereof, any land, either heretofore or hereafter acquired, which is not
required for the purposes of such county or city as determined in the dis-
cretion of the governing body thereof; provided such land is to be used for
the establishment, operation or maintenance for a State hospital for the
mentally retarded.