CHAPTER 346

An Act to amend and reenact § $7-75, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to fees and expenses of commitment of certain persons

to certain institutions.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 87-75, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 87-75. The two physicians shall receive a fee cf 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 dol-
lars. The justice of the peace shall receive a fee of five dollars for his
services. * Any special justice * appointed in accordance with the pro-
visions of § 37-61.2 shall receive a fee of ten dollars for his service. 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 commit-
ment; 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 confined in any State-
supported institution, such fee shall be paid by the State. Any such fees,
costs and expenses incurred in connection with the examination of any
person under the provisions of § § 37-61 to 37-65, when paid by any coun-
ty, city or the State, shall be recoverable by such county, city or the
State, from the person so examined, or from his estate , or from the per-
son at whose request the proceedings were instituted, 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 found sane
or not subject to commitment under § § 37-61 to 37-65.