Chap. 316.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1021 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, in relation to fees and costs of commissions on questions of in-
sanity, inebriacy, feeble-mindedness and epilepsy, by increasing the fees of jus-
tices of the peace from two to five dollars in cities having a population of
more than forty thousand. [H 39

Approved March 17, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section ten hundred twenty-one of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, be amended and reenacted 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; provided, however, that in cities
having a population of more than forty thousand according to the
last official United States census, the fee of the justice of the peace
shall be five dollars. 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 estab-
lished in the State of Virginia costs shall be paid by the State. Any
such fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the exami-
nation 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 and seventeen of the
Code.