Chap. 92.--An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1018 and 1019 of the Code of
Virginia, as heretofore amended, relating to proceedings for the commitment of
insane, feeble-minded, epileptic and inebriate persons to the several State
hospitals and colonies. [SB 153]

Approved February 26, 1940

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

Section 1018. What Commission’s Report to Consist of; State
Hospital Board to Prescribe and Furnish Forms.—The report of the
commission shall consist of the warrant of arrest and application
therefor, the interrogatories and answers thereto, the medical certi-
ficate and the order of commitment. The State Hospital Board shall
prescribe and prepare the forms required in the commitment of
insane, feeble-minded, epileptic and inebriate persons and also the
forms of application for voluntary admission of insane persons to
the State hospitals.

The State Hospital Board shall cause to be printed the forms
thus prescribed for said commitment in separate parts, one to consist
of the warrant of arrest and application therefor, the medical certifi-
cate and the order of commitment, the other to consist of the inter-
rogatories and answers thereto. These forms which shall be the sole
legal forms used in such commitments and admissions, shall be dis-
tributed by the State Hospital Board to the clerks of the circuit and
corporation courts of the various counties and cities of the State and
to the superintendents of the respective State hospitals for the insane
and the colonies for epileptics and feeble-minded.

All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this section are hereby
repealed.

Section 1019. Record of Commitment Proceedings.—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 certifi-
cate and the order of commitment shall be made in duplicate, one
copy of which shall be transmitted by the judge or justice to the
superintendent of the hospital or colony to which admission 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 copy-
ing into such book the principal facts of such records of proceedings
including the name of the person committed, the names of the mem-
bers of the commission, the findings of the commission, the disposi-
tion 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,
together with the copy of the warrant of arrest and application
therefor, the medical certificate and the order of commitment as
aforesaid.