Chap. 111.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of an act entitled ‘‘An Act
to proivde for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain
cases’’, approved March 20, 1924. [IS B 66]

Approved March 1, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section one of an act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the sexual sterili-
zation of inmates of State institutions in certain cases’, approved
March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. Whenever the superintendent of the Western State
Hospital, or of the Eastern State Hospital, or of the Southwestern
State Hospital, or of the Central State Hospital, or of the Lynchburg
State Colony, or of the Petersburg State Colony, shall be of opinion
that it is for the best interests of the patients and of society that any
inmate of the institution under his care should be sexually sterilized,
such superintendent is hereby authorized to perform, or cause to be
performed by some capable physician or surgeon, the operation of
sterilization on any such patient confined in such institution afflicted
with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbecility,
feeble-mindedness or epilepsy; provided that such superintendent
shall have first complied with the requirements of this act.