Chap. 29.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1019 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to the records of proceedings in the com-
mitment of insane, epileptic, inebriate and feeble-minded persons. [H B 40]

Approved February 17, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
ten hundred and nineteen of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1019. That part of the record of proceedings under this
chapter for the commitment of insane, epileptic, inebriate and feeble-
minded persons, consisting of the warrant of arrest and application
therefor, the medical certificate and the order of commitment shall be
made in duplicate, one copy of which shall be delivered by the judge
or justice to the sheriff or sergeant of the county or city for trans-
mittal to the superintendent of the hospital or colony to which admis-
sion is sought, and the other copy filed in the office of the clerk of
the circuit court of the county or the clerk of the corporation court of
the city who shall record the same in a book to be kept for the purpose
either by copying into such book the principal facts of such records
of proceedings including the name of the person committed, the names
of the members of the commission, the findings of the commission, the
disposition made of the case and the date thereto or by inserting the
papers themselves in a properly prepared loose leaf binder book.
Such book shall be supplied by the county or city, shall be kept properly
indexed by the clerk and shall be known as the “record book of insane,
epileptic, inebriate and feeble-minded persons.”

That part of the record of proceedings under this chapter for the
commitment of insane, epileptic, inebriate and feeble-minded persons
consisting of the interrogatories and answers thereto, containing the
details of the patient’s medical history shall not be filed in the clerk’s
office with the other records but shall be transmitted directly to the
superintendent of the hospital or colony to which admission is sought.