Chap. 79.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 57, as amended, of Chapter
379 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, known as the
“Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Act of 1938”, relating to persons
eligible for general relief; and to further amend the act by adding thereto a
new section, numbered 59-a, providing for appeals in certain cases. [S B 71]

Approved March 2, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section fifty-seven, as amended, of chapter three hundred
seventy-nine of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred thirty-eight,
approved March thirty-one, nineteen hundred thirty-eight, known as the
Virginia Public Assistance Act of nineteen hundred thirty-eight”, be
amended and re-enacted, and that the “Virginia Public Welfare and As-
sistance Act of nineteen hundred thirty-eight” be further amended by
adding thereto a new section numbered fifty-nine-a, the amended and
h€w sections being as follows:

Section 57. Eligibility for general relief—A person shall be eligi-

€ for general relief if such person

(a) Is needy and is in need of public relief. .

(b) Is not an inmate of or being maintained by any county, munici-
pal, State, or national institution at the time of receiving such relief; but
such person while an inmate may make application for relief, but such
relief, if granted, shall not begin until after he ceases to be such inmate;
Provided, however, that any person who is an inmate of any public or
Private institution approved by the State Board of Public Welfare for the
Care and maintenance of aged, infirm, chronically ill or incapacitated per-
SONS may apply for and receive such relief notwithstanding his being an
inmate of such home.

_ Section 59-a. Appeals; reviews.—Any applicant or recipient ag-
gneved by any decision granting, changing, suspending or refusing or by
failure to make a decision within a reasonable time under the provisions
ot this act, shall, within the time allowed and in the manner prescribed
by section twenty-three of the “Virginia Public Assistance Act of nine-
teen hundred thirty-eight”, as amended, have the right of appeal to or re-
view by the State Board of Public Welfare.