Chap. 437.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2802 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the poor. — [S B 269]

Approved March 26, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-eight hundred and two, of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows: |

Section 2802. On the complaint of the overseer, or other qualified
poor-relief officer, or any district, county, city or town, or of the sheriff
of any county sergeant or other officer of any town or city, to a justice,
or court in his county, city or town, or any such officer in such county,
town or city having the authority and powers of a justice, that any
person has come into such county, city or town and has not established
legal settlement therein as defined in section twenty-eight hundred, who
is unable to maintain himself or who is likely to be chargeable thereto,
such justice, court or other officer may, by warrant, cause such person
to be removed to the county, town or city, or other State, wherein he
was last legally settled, unless he be so sick or disabled that he cannot
be removed without danger of life; in which case he shall be provided
for, in the first instance, at the charge of the county, town or city
wherein he is, and after his recovery shall be removed.

The overseer or other qualified poor-relief officer, or other officer,
or taxpayer of a county, town or city, in which a person requiring re-
lief is found who is alleged to lack legal settlement, may, by petition to
a justice or court, institute proceedings to determine the legal settle-
ment of such person. The board of supervisors of the county or coun-
cil of the town or city, or other proper officer of such county, town or
city, in which such person is alleged to have legal settlement, shall be
made parties to the proceeding and summons shall be issued to them as
in civil actions. If a person requiring relief whose settlement has been
ascertained and determined in the above manner to be in some other
county, town or city, or other State, refuse to be removed, the justice,
court, or other officer having the authority and powers of a magistrate,
shall, on the complaint of the officer whose duty it is to remove such
person, issue a warrant for such removal, and upon conviction shall
be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or six months
in jail, either or both.