Chap. 157.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4 of an act entitled an act
to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper guardian-
ship of children who are vicious or depraved, or without proper places
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of abode, or proper guardianship, or control, or who shall be ill-treated,
neglected, or deserted by parents, guardian or other custodian, or who
shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and training, approved
March 14, 1908.

Approved March 14, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
four of an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an
act to provide places of abode and for the safe custody and proper
guardianship of children who are vicious or depraved, or without proper
places of abode, or proper guardianship or control, or who shall be ill-
treated, neglected, or deserted by parents, guardians or other custo-
dian, or who shall be exposed to immoral or vicious influences and
training, approved April second, nineteen hundred and two, which was
amended by an act approved February twenty-eight, nineteen hundred
and six, which was amended by an act approved March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and eight, be amended so as to read as follows:

84. All bodies incorporated, or to be incorporated, under the gen-
eral law for pusposes of the care, custody and guardianship and pro-
tection of minors generally, and all charitable and benevolent societies,
or associations to whom such minors may be committed under this act,
shall have the power and authority following:

First. To retain children legally committed or confined to them
until the age of eighteen in females and twenty-one in males, except as
hereinbefore provided.

Second. To place out such children in suitable homes upon such
terms as the managers, directors or trustees deem beneficial to the chil-
dren, or to place them out as apprentices to any trade or occupation
(but not in violation of any law against child labor) which the man-
agers, directors, or trustees may deem proper for their betterment, sub-
ject to the contro] and supervision of such managers, directors and
trustees, the custody of such minors not to be absolutely relinquished in
any case, except as hereinbefore provided, and a record to be kept of the
time of placing out, the name and residence of persons with whom
placed, and the terms and conditions of placing out; and such man-
agers, directors, and trustees may require of the person with whom such
minor may be placed out a suitable bond, with satisfactory security,
for the faithful performance of the conditions and agreements upon
which minor may be placed out; and it shall be the duty of the said
managers, directors or trustees to cause every child so placed out to be
visited at least once in every six months in order to inquire into its
welfare.

Third. To exercise parental authority and control over such chil-
dren, and to make all needful provisions as to care, maintenance, and
education of the same.

Fourth. To procure and commit such children in cases of necessity
to reformatory institutions. The foregoing provisions are not to be
understood to affect the powers of the courts to adjudicate all ques-
tions as to custody of minors, irrespective of any alleged or supposed
claim or right of guardianship or custody, or to abridge or affect any
corporate rights of any institution, or to prevent the receiving of minors,
under such definite periods as any institution may, by their regulations,
direct or prescribe.