CHAPTER 325

AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 68-879, 63-380, 63-382 and 63-385 of the
Code of Virginia, requiring the Medical College of Virginia to estab-
lish and maintain a mobile psychiatric clinic, providing for the pur-
chase of supplies and equipment, cooperation of certain agencies, and

teaching of students and opportunities of research, so as to transfer
the duties formerly imposed upon the Medical College of Virginia and
the Board thereof upon the Department of Mental Hygiene and Hos-
pitals and the State Hospital Board. [8 279}

Approved March 13, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 68-379, 63-380, 63-382 and 63-385 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 68-379. The * State Hospital Board, hereinafter referred to as
board, and the Department of Mental Hygiene and Hospitals are directed
to establish and maintain a mobile psychiatric clinic to provide the serv-
ices and perform the functions hereinafter set forth for children who have
been committed to the Department of Welfare and Institutions and are
being held at any institution maintained by such Department in the city
of Richmond or adjoining counties and at the training schools maintained
by such Department.

§ 63-380. The * board shall direct the purchase of such supplies,
equipment, and motor vehicles as are necessary to carry out the provisions
of this chapter.

§ 63-382. The Department of Health * and the Department of Wel-
fare and Institutions shall cooperate and advise with the board or its staff
in the performance of the duties imposed by this chapter in connection with
this mobile clinic.

§ 63-385. The clinical services herein established shall also include
provisions for teaching of students *, and shall constitute recognized op-
portunities for research, to the end that the clinical services may con-
tribute to a proper increase in better prepared personnel, an increase in
knowledge of the causes of juvenile delinquency, and more effective treat-
ment and rehabilitation.