Chap. 82.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1068 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to commitment of inebriates to State hospitals for the

insane, {S B 70]
Approved March 1, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion one thousand and sixty-eight of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1068. Inebriates, their commitment, care and treatment
and expense therefor.—Any person who through use of alcoholic
liquors or habit-forming drugs, has become dangerous to the public
or himself, and unable to care for himself or his property or family,
and for either of these reasons has become a burden on the public,
shall, upon complaint of any person, be brought before a commission
in the same manner and under the same process as is provided by
law for commissions of insanity, and if said person shall be found by
said commission to be in the condition above mentioned, such person
shall be committed to a State hospital for the insane, as an inebriate,
to be kept and held there until the superintendent of that institution
shall declare such person cured and restored to his normal condition,
when he shall be discharged, or paroled, as may seem proper to the
superintendent of said institution. But every inebriate so committed
and received at such institution shall be assigned and kept in wards
separate and apart from the insane patients.

Every person committed under this section who has property in
excess of the homestead and other exemptions to which he or’ she is
entitled, shall be liable to said State hospital for the purpose of cover-
ing expenses of treatment, at the rate of twenty- -five dollars per month,
while detained there.

The hospital board is hereby authorized to designate one or more
of the State hospitals for the care of inebriates and when so designated
all commitments shall be made accordingly.