CHAPTER 194

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 16-172.64, and 16-172.65 and 16-172.67,
as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to establishment of
plans for detention facilities, provisions required for detention of
children, and expenses of detention homes, so as to provide for the
development of regional detention facilities and for reimbursement
of counties and cities in connection therewith, and to authorize the
State Board of Welfare and Institutions to prescribe minimum stand-
ards for detention facilities and prohibit detention of children in
factlities failing to meet such standards, and for the enforcement of
orders of the Board issued in connection therewith.

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Approved March 2, 1956
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 16-172.64, and 16-172.65 and 16-172.67, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 16-172.64. It shall be the duty of the Department of Welfare and
Institutions to devise, develop and promulgate a State-wide plan for the
establishment and maintenance of suitable local and regional detention
facilities reasonably accessible to each court. .

_ The Director shall have authority to appoint a State supervisor
of juvenile detention and other necessary agents for the carrying out of
such a plan and the State supervisor shall cooperate with the proper local
authorities in establishing and maintaining suitable detention facilities in
accordance with the provisions of this law.

§ 16-172.65 (a) Provision shall be made for the temporary deten-
tion of children coming within the purview of this law (1) in a detention
home conducted as an agency of the city or county or any combination
thereof for that purpose or, (2) in a private home or homes selected by
and under the supervision of the court or local department of public wel-
fare, or ($) by an incorporated institution, society or association, licensed
by the State Board as a children’s agency, or (4) in a detention home
conducted by another county or city or any combination thereof. The court
or judge shall not send any child to a jail or station house while awaiting
trial or disposition except in accordance with the provisions of this law.

(b) The State Board is authorized and directed to prescribe mint-
mum standards for construction and equipment of detention homes or
other facilities and for feeding, clothing, medical attention, attendance
and care of children detained therein. It may prohibit by its order the
detention of children in any place of detention which does not meet such
minimum standards and designate some other place of detention for
children who would otherwise be held therein. Copies of each such order
shall upon being issued be sent to the person in charge of the detention
facilities and to the judge of the circuit court of the county or corporation
court of the. city in which the facility is located. Orders of the Board shall
be enforced by courts of record as is provided for orders issued under
§ 58-184 and procedure shall be, mutatis mutandis, as is provided for the
enforcement of orders of the Board under § 58-185.

§ 16-172.67. The responsibility for the construction, maintenance
and operation of a detention home established by a city or county or any
combination thereof and the necessary expenses incurred in maintaining
and operating such detention home shall be a charge upon the county or
city, or any combination thereof, as the case may be, and the county
boards of supervisors or the city councils or other governing bodies shall
make provision therefor. The Commonwealth shall reimburse the city or
county, or any combination thereof, as the case may be one-third of the
cost of construction of a detention home hereafter constructed by, or
whose facilities will be available, upon a basis approved by the Board,
for use by, three or more counties or cities or any combination thereof,
two-thirds of the salaries of officers and employees engaged in the opera-
tion and maintenance of detention homes; and it shall further reimburse
the city or county, or any combination thereof, for the entire reasonable
cost of food and of the clothing, medicines, lights, water, heat, disin-
fectants, beds and bedding, and other necessary equipment and supplies
required for the care of children held in detention homes awaiting hear-
ing or disposition under the juvenile laws of this State. Provided, how-
ever, that no such reimbursement for costs of construction shall be had
unless the construction of such detention home has been approved by the
Governor and plans and specifications therefor have been submitted to and
approved by him; nor shall any such reimbursement exceed twenty-five
thousand dollars for any one such home. Provided, further, that equipment
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may be purchased only after approval is first obtained in writing from
the Department, or required by appropriate authority for safety or health.
Such reimbursements shall be paid in monthly installments by the State
Treasurer out of funds appropriated in the general appropriation act for
criminal costs on warrants of the Comptroller, issued upon vouchers
approved and signed by the Director, or by such person as may be desig-
nated by the Director.