An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1912 |
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Law Number | 43 |
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Law Body
Chap. 43.—An ACT to require the licensing and adequate inspection and
supervision of persons and corporations conducting maternity hos-
pitals and lying-in asylums, and of persons receiving, boarding and
keeping children, not relatives; prescribing rules for placing out and
. for reports; penalty.
Approved February 20, 1912.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act entitled “an act to require the licensing and adequate
inspection and supervision of persons and corporations con-
ducting maternity hospitals and lying-in asylums, and of those
engaged in placing destitute children in family homes,” approved
March tenth, nineteen hundred and ten, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:
§1. That any person or corporation, not being superintend-
ent of the poor, that erects, conducts, establishes or maintains
in this State a maternity hospital or lying-in asylum, where
females may be received, cared for or treated during pregnancy,
or during or after delivery, or receives, boards or keeps any
children, not relatives, under five years of age, without legal
commitment, shall, on and after July first, nineteen hundred and
twelve, obtain, on the recommendation of the State board of
charities and corrections, a license to conduct said business from
the local board of health of the city or county in which said
business is carried on, or in which such children are boarded or
kept.
§2. No infant delivered in any lying-in asylum in this State
shall be placed out by the mother while an inmate of said lying-in
asylum, or within one month after leaving said asylum, or by
any other person whatever, except upon the approval of the
superintendent, or other person in charge of said asylum, and
of the local health officer.
§3. Where arrangements for the placing out of an infant
whose mother is an inmate of any lying-in asylum in this State
are made by any person other than the superintendent of said
asylum, said superintendent shall be held responsible for the
proper placing of said infant as if the arrangements had been
personally made by said superintendent.
§4. Every superintendent or other person in charge of any
lying-in asylum or maternity home, or other institution in this
State where females may be received, cared for or treated during
pregnancy, or during or after delivery, shall report in writing
to the local health officer, on forms furnished by said health
officer, every birth, admission, death and discharge occurring in
or from said lying-in asylum, maternity home or other institu-
tion, within twenty-four hours, and duplicates of said reports
shall be sent to the State board of charities and corrections.
§5. Every report of such birth, admission, death or discharge
shall give the full name of the infant and parents, so far as these
can be obtained, and said information shall be regarded as confi-
dential and permanent record shall be made of same.
§6. Any person or corporation who shall wilfully violate any
of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not
less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars
for each offense.
§7. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.