Chap. 350.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 15 of an act entitled “An act
to continue the Board of Charities and Corrections under the name of State
Board of Public Welfare; to provide for the composition and maintenance of
said board; to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide how
the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be appointed and com-
pensated; to authorize the board to create a children’s bureau; to provide how
county and city boards of public welfare must or may be appointed, with certain
exceptions, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such local boards; to
authorize such local boards to appoint local superintendents of public welfare,
and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of such superintendent if
and when appointed; also to repeal sections 1888 to 1902, inclusive, of the Code
of Virginia.”, approved February 27, 1922, relating to the qualification, powers
and duties of county and city superintendents of public welfare. [S B 335]

Approved March 30, 1940

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That
section fifteen of an act entitled ‘‘An act to continue the Board of
Charities and Corrections under the name of State Board of Public
Welfare; to provide for the composition and maintenance of said
board; to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide
how the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be ap-
pointed and compensated; to authorize the board to create a children’s
bureau; to provide how county and city boards of public welfare must
or may be appointed, with certain exceptions, and to prescribe the
powers and duties of such local boards; to authorize such local boards
to appoint local superintendents of public welfare, and to prescribe
the powers, duties and compensation of such superintendents if and
when appointed; also to repeal sections eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight to nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia.”,
approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 15. Each county and city superintendent of public wel-
fare shall be the executive officer of the board appointing him. Before
entering upon the discharge of his duties, every such superintendent
shall take the usual oath of office before the circuit court of the county
or the corporation, hustings or other court having criminal jurisdiction
of the city, for which he was appointed, or the judge thereof in vaca-
tion, and shall also enter into bonds with surety to be approved by
the court or judge, in such sum as the court or judge may fix, condi-
tioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties. Every such super-
intendent is hereby vested with the powers of a police officer or con-
stable. Under the supervision, control and direction of such local
board, and in cooperation with other public and private agencies, he
shall have power, and it shall be his duty:

(a) To have the care and supervision of the poor and to administer
the funds now administered by the overseers of the poor.

(b) To administer mothers’ aid funds, if any, in accordance with
the provisions of State law.

(c) Under direction of the State Board of Public Welfare, to look
after and supervise the conditions of persons paroled from hospitals
for the insane and colonies for the epileptic and feeble-minded, and
from other State institutions.
(d) To actas the agent of the State board in relation to any work
to be done by said board within the county or city.

(e) To have oversight of persons in the county or city released
on probation or on parole from the penitentiary, reformatories, in-
dustrial schools and all paroled prisoners in the county or city.

(f) Under direction of the State board to have supervision of
dependent children placed in the county or city by the State board.

(zg) To assist the State board in finding employment for the un-
employed.

(h) To investigate the causes of distress, under the direction of
the State board, and to make such other investigations as the State
board may direct.

(i) To act as chief probation officer for the county or city, and
as such to enforce and administer the probation laws within the
county or city.

(j) To foster cooperation and intelligent division of work be-
tween all public and private charitable and social agencies in the
county or city to the end that public resources and charitable dona-
tions may be conserved and the needs of the county or city be ade-
quately cared for.

The records of the cases handled and business transacted by the
local superintendent shall be kept in such manner and form as may be
prescribed by the State Board of Public Welfare. He shall each year
prepare and keep on file a full report of his work and proceedings
during the year, and shall file one copy of such report with the county
clerk, or the clerk of his corporation or hustings court, and another
with the State Board of Public Welfare.