Chap. 516.—An ACT to provide for the acceptance of the benefits of an act
passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled to provide for the promotion of voca-
tional rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise; to pro-
vide for the appointment of a custodian of all moneys received by the
State from appropriations made by the Congress of the United States for
the purpose stated; to provide for the appointment of a State board to
co-operate with the Federal board for vocational education in carrying out
the provisions of said act, and prescribe its powers and duties; to provide
for a plan of co-operation between such State board and the industrial
commission of Virginia. [S B 391]

Approved March 28, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Virginia: The
State of Virginia does hereby, through its legislative authority, ac-
cept the provisions and benefits of the act of Congress, entitled
an act to provide for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of
persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil
employment, approved June second, nineteen hundred and twenty,
and will observe and comply with all requirements of such act.

2. The State treasurer is hereby designated and appointed cus-
todian of all moneys received by the State from appropriations made
by the Congress of the United States for the vocational rehabilita-
tion of persons disabled in industry or otherwise, and is authorized
to receive and provide for the proper custody of the same and to
make disbursements therefrom upon the order of the State board
herein designated. |

3. The board heretofore designated as the State board for voca-
tional rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise, and
education in the administration of the provisions of the vocational
educational act, approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred
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and seventeen, is hereby designated as the State board for the pur-
pose of co-operating with the said federal board in carrying out the
provisions and purposes of said federal act providing for the voca-
tional rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise, and
is empowered and directed to co-operate with said federal board in
the administration of said act of Congress; to prescribe and provide
such courses of vocational training as may be necessary for the voca-
tional rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and
provide for the supervision of such training; to appoint such assist-
ants as may be necessary to administer this act and said act of
Congress in this State; to fix the compensation of such assistants
and to direct the disbursement and administer the use of all funds
provided by the federal government of this State for the vocational
rehabilitation of such persons.

4. It shall be the duty of the State board, empowered to co-
operate as aforesaid, and the industrial commission of Virginia to
formulate a plan of co-operation in accordance with the provisions
of this act and said act of Congress, such plan to become effective
when approved by the governor of the State.

5. The State board designated to co-operate as aforesaid in the
administration of the federal act, is hereby authorized and empow-
ered to receive such gifts and donations, either from public or private
sources, as may be offered unconditionally or under such conditions
related to the vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry
or otherwise as in the judgment of the State board are proper and
consistent with the ptovisions of this act. All the moneys received
as gifts or donations shall be deposited in the State treasury and
shall constitute a permanent fund to be called the special fund for
the vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons, to be used by the
said board to defray the expenses of vocational rehabilitation in
special cases, including the payment of necessary expenses of per-
sons undergoing training. A full report of all gifts and donations
offered and accepted, together with the names of the donors and
the respective amounts contributed by each, and all disbursements
therefrom shall be submitted annually to the governor of the State
by the State board.