An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1916 |
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Law Number | 255 |
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CHAP. 255.—An ACT requiring committees of persons lawfully confined in
certain institutions of Virginia, who have no kin in the relation of
husband or wife or child dependent on them, and who possess estates
to py to the steward of the institution in which they are confined
such incomes as may arise from their estates to provide for such per-
sons extra comforts not provided by such institutions in the ordinar
maintenance of inmates. (H. B. 309.
Approved March 16, 1916.
Whereas, it appears from the statements of the superinten-
dents of certain State institutions for the care of the insane, the
epileptic and the feeble-minded, that certain lawfully committed
inmates or patients of such institutions who have no kin in
the relation of husband or wife, or child, lawfully dependent on
them and whose committees hold in trust for them estates con-
sisting of real or personal property receive but little if any ben-
efits from the incomes arising from such estates, and that it is
the opinion of the superintendents of such institutions that the
expenditures of such incomes or portions of them would afford
material comfort and pleasure to such inmates or patients of the
institutions; therefore
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the committee of any person who now is or may hereafter be
lawfully committed to any of the State hospitals for the insane
of Virginia, to the Virginia State epileptic colony, or to any one
of the State colonies for the care of the feeble-minded of Vir-
ginia, be, and is, hereby required to annually, on or before the
first day of July in each year, pay to the steward of the State
institution in which he or she may be a lawfully confined inmate
or patient any income which may arise from the estate of such
person held by him in trust, whether such income be in the na-
ture of interest from money invested or rents from real estate,
after payment of taxes or other lawful charges to be used by the
said steward for providing such extra comforts for said
patient as he or she may desire, or which in the opinion of
superintendent of the said institution in which the said person
is lawfully confined would add to the comfort or pleasure of
such patient and which is not provided in ordinary maintenance;
provided, however, that no committee shall be required to make
such payment of income to the steward of any institution in the
case of any person who has a husband or wife, or child, lawfully
dependent on his or her estate for support; provided that the
payment of such income to the steward of any institution in
the case of any person shall not exceed the sum of two hundred
dollars in any one year, unless the amount in excess of this sum
is ordered by the court of the county or city in which the com-
mittee has qualified.
2. The stewards of all of the aforementioned institutions
receiving money as prescribed in this act from the committee of
any person, shall, annually, on or before the first of July, of
each year, after such sum, or sums shall have been paid, render
to him an itemized statement showing receipts and disburse-
ments of money received from such committee, accompanied
by a certificate from the superintendent of such institution that
such expenditures were authorized by him, and that none of the
€xpenditures were for anything in the ordinary maintenance
of such person.
3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.