Chap. 104.—An ACT to accept the provisions of an act of the Congress of the
United States, approved November 23, 1921, entitled an act for the promotion
of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other ‘aes

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Approved February 27, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the Commonwealth of Virginia hereby accepts the provisions of the
act of the Congress of the United States, approved November twenty-
third, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, entitled an act for the promo-
tion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for
other purposes.

2. The State board of health is hereby directed to co-operate,
through its child welfare division, with the Federal children’s bureau
in the administration of the provisions of the act of Congress afore-
said, and to do all things necessary to entitle the Commonwealth to
receive all the benefits thereof.

3. The auditor of public accounts is hereby designated as the
custodian of all funds allotted to the Commonwealth from appropria-
tions made by Congress under or in pursuance of said act, and he
shall receive and provide for the proper custody and disbursement
of the same in accordance with law.

4. The State board of health is hereby directed to submit, through
its child welfare division, to the Federal children’s bureau detailed
plans for carrying out within the Commonwealth the provisions of
the act of Congress aforesaid, which plans shall be subject to the
approval of the Federal board of maternity and infant hygiene:
Provided, that the plans submitted shall provide that no official, or
agent, or representative in carrying out the provisions of this act
shall enter any home or take charge of any child over the objection
of the parents, or either of them, or the person standing in loco
parentis or having custody of such child.

5. No official, agent, or representative of the State board of
health, or its child welfare division, shall by virtue of this act have
any right to enter any home over the objection of the owner thereof,
or to take charge of any child over the objection of the parents, or
either of them, or of the person standing in loco parentis or having
custody of such child. Nothing in this act shall be construed as
limiting the power of ‘a parent or guardian or person standing in
loco parentis to determine what treatment or correction shall be
provided for a child or the agency or agencies to be employed for
such purpose.