Chap. 543.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1514-a 2 of the Code of
Virginia, with respect to definitions, so as to exclude any home for indigent
aged persons, operated by a county, city or town, from the provisions of
the Virginia Hospital Licensing and Inspection Law, added to the Code of
Virginia by Chapter 15 of the Acts of the General Assembly, 1947. {S 292]

Approved April 6, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That section fifteen hundred and fourteen-a two, of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 1514-a 2. Definitions—As used in this chapter unless a
different meaning or construction is clearly required by the context or
otherwise (1) the expression “the law”, “this law”, means the Virginia
Hospital Licensing and Inspection Law as embraced now or hereafter
in this chapter of the Code; (2) “person” means and includes individual,
partnership, association, trust, corporation, municipality, county, and
local governmental agencies; and any other legal or commercial entity
and every manager or operator of a hospital embraced in this law, as
requisite, excepting the United States, its departments and employees, and
agencies thereof solely owned or directly controlled by it; (3) “hospital”
means any institution, place, building or agency by or in which facilities
for any accommodation are maintained, furnished, conducted, operated
or offered for the hospitalization of two (2) or more non-related mentally
or physically sick or injured persons, or for the care of two (2)
or more non-related persons: requiring or receiving medical or nurs-
ing attention or service as chronics, convalescents, aged, disabled
or crippled, including, but not to exclusion of other particular kinds
with varying nomenclature or designation, ordinary hospitals, sana-
toria, sanitaria, rest homes, nursing homes, infirmaries, and other related
institutions and undertakings, exclusive of maternity hospitals to the
extent same are included within the scope of the provisions of chapter
three hundred twenty-two, acts nineteen hundred forty, as from time
to time amended, so long as the licensing, inspection and supervisory
provisions thereof remain in full force and effect but no longer, and
exclusive of dispensary or first aid facilities maintained by any commer-
cial or industrial plant, educational institution or convent, and exclusive
of those institutions now or hereafter subject to control of the State
Hospital Board or medical or educational institutions of the State, and
exclusive also of any home for indigent aged persons owned or operated
by a county, or by two or more political subdivisions jointly, city or
town; (4) “Board” means the State Board of Health; (5) “Commis-
sioner” means the State Health Commissioner ; (6) ‘“‘non-related” means
not related by blood or marriage, ascending or descending or first degree
full or half collateral.