Chap. 381.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1021 of the Code of Vir
ginia, as amended, in relation to fees and costs of commissions on question:
of insanity, inebriacy, feeble-mindedness and epilepsy. [S B 217

Approved March 31, 1938

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sectior
ten hundred and twenty-one of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

_ Section 1021. The two physicians shall receive a fee of five dollars
each for their services. The justice of the peace shall receive a fee
of two dollars for his services. The officer making the arrest and
summoning the commission and witnesses shall receive the same fees
as are allowed for like services in a felony case. The witnesses regularly
summoned before such commission shall receive such compensation
for their attendance and mileage as is allowed witnesses summoned to
testify before grand juries. The justice and each physician shall receive
like mileage. All expenses incurred, whether such person be committed
to any State hospital, or colony, or not, including the fees, attendance
and mileage aforesaid, shall be paid by the county or city of which such
person was a legal resident at the time of such commitment; provided,
that if such person’s residence is not established in the State of Virginia,
costs shall be paid by the State. Any such fees, costs and expenses
incurred in connection with the examination of any person under the
provisions of section ten hundred and seventeen foregoing, when paid
by any county or city, shall be recoverable by such county or city from
the person so examined, or from his estate, in an appropriate action
or proceeding for such purpose; provided, however, no such fee or
costs shall be recovered from any person or his estate when he is
found sane or not subject to commitment under Section ten hundred
und seventeen of the Code.