CHAPTER 445

An Act to amend and reenact Section 87-75, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to fees and expenses of commitment of mentally ill,
mentally deficient, epileptic, and inebriate persons and drug addicts.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That Section 37-75, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 37-75. The two physicians shall receive a fee of * ten dollars each
for their services, except that such fee in the city of Richmond shall be fixed
by the governing body thereof in an amount not to exceed ten dollars.
The justice of the peace shall receive a fee of five dollars for his services.
The special justice in the city of Richmond appointed in accordance
with the provisions of Section 87-61.2 * shall receive a fee of ten dollars
for his service. The officer making the arrest and summoning the com-
mission 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 ex-
penses 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 established in the State of Virginia, costs shall be paid by the State,
and provided that if any such person, at the time of commitment, be con-
fined in any State supported institution, such fee shall be paid by the State.
Any such fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the ex-
amination of any person under the provisions of Sections 37-61 to 37-65,
when paid by any county, city, or the State, shall be recoverable by such
county, city or the State,’ from the person so examined, or from his estate,
in an appropriate action or proceeding for such purpose; provided, no such
fee or costs shall be recovered from any person or his estate when he is
aa gine or not subject to commitment under Sections 37-61 to 37-65 of

e Code.