CHAPTER 133

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 37-1.1 and 37-5, as amended, of the Code
of Virginia, relating to certain definitions of certain State institutions
and to continuation of the Petersburg Training School. '$ 110]

Approved March 2, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 37-1.1 and 37-5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 37-1.1. As used in this title, the following words shall have the
meaning ascribed to them:

(1) “Mentally ill” means any person afflicted with mental disease
to such an extent that for his own welfare or the welfare of others, or of
the community, he requires care and treatment;

(2) “Mentally deficient” means any person afflicted with mental de-
fectiveness from birth or from an early age to such extent that he is in-
capable of managing himself and his affairs, who for his own welfare or
the welfare of others or of the community requires supervision, control or
care and who is not mentally ill or of unsound mind to such an extent as to
require his commitment to an institution for the mentally ill;

(3) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and
Hospitals;

(4) “Department” means the Department of Mental Hygiene and
Hospitals;

(5) “Board” means the State Hospital Board;

(6) “Legal resident” means any person who has lived in this State
for a period of one year without public support for himself or his spouse
or minor children;

(7) “Justice” or “trial justice” includes police justices or civil and
police justices of cities, but except as hereinafter provided shall not include
a justice of the peace or mayor;

(8) A “dotard” is a person of advanced years whose mental proc-
esses have been weakened or impaired, but who shows no delusional
formation, hallucinations, behavior or emotional variations characteristic
of mental illness;

(9) “Insane”? means a person who has been adjudicated legally in-
competent by a court of record or other constituted authority because
of mental disease;

(10) ‘“Feeble-minded” means a person who has been adjudicated
legally incompetent by a court of record or other constituted authority
because of intellectual defect;

(11) “Hospital”? means a hospital for the care and treatment of the
mentally ill;

(12) “Colony” means the Lynchburg Training School and Hospital,
the Petersburg Training School * or the department for colored epileptics
at the Central State Hospital, Petersburg.

§ 37-5. The colony for the care of the colored mentally deficient
located partly in Prince George County and partly in Dinwiddie County
with the name “Petersburg Training School” *, shall be continued as
established and shall be under the management and control of the State
Hospital Board.