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Volume | 1922 |
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Law Number | 487 |
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Chap. 487.—An ACT to provide for the licensing, regulation and inspection of
children’s boarding houses and nurseries. [S B 8]
Approved March 27, 1922.
Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, as follows:
Section 1. Any person who has in his custody or under his control
at any one time three or more children, of different children’s parents,
under the age of six years unattended by a parent or guardian except
children related to him by blood or marriage, for the purpose of
providing them with care, food or lodging, by the day, week or
month, shall be deemed to maintain a children’s boarding house or
nursery. The word “person” where used in this act shall include
individuals, partnerships, voluntary associations and corporations ;
provided, however, that this act shall not be construed to relate to
any institution under the management of the State board of public
welfare, or to its officers or agents.
Section 2. The State board of public welfare may grant a license
to maintain any children’s boarding house or nursery that 1s for
the public good and is conducted by a reputable and responsible
person. No person shall receive a child for care in any such boarding
house or nursery without first obtaining such license from the State
board of public welfare. Every application for such license shall
first be approved by the board of health of the county or city in
which such boarding house or nursery is to be maintained and no such
license shall be issued unless the premises are in fit sanitary condition.
The license shall be granted for a term not exceeding one year, shall
state the name of the licensee, the particular premises in which the
business may be carried on, the number of children that may be
boarded or cared for at one time, and shall be kept posted in a con-
spicuous place on the licensed premises. No greater number of chil-
dren shall be kept at one time on the premises than 1s authorized by
the license, and no child shall be kept in a building or place not
designated in the license. A record of the licenses issued shall be
kept by the State board of public welfare which shall forthwith
give notice to the State board of health and to the board of health
of the county or city in which the licensee resides of the granting of
such license and the terms thereof. The State board of public welfare
may revoke a license so issued when a provision of this act is
violated, or when, in the opinion of said board, such boarding house
or nursery is maintained without due regard to the health, comfort
or morality of the inmates thereof. The board shall note such revo-
cation upon the face of the record of such license and shall give
written notice of the revocation to the licensee and shall notify the
board of health of the city or county in which said boarding house
or nursery is situated; provided that any such licensee shall have
a right of appeal within ten days from any such order of revocation
to the juvenile and domestic relations court of the city or the county
wherein such boarding house or nursery is situated.
Section 3. The State board of public welfare shall prescribe and
furnish forms for the registration and records of children cared for
in such boarding houses. The record of each child shall state its
name, the date of its reception, together with the name and address
of the parents and the name and address of the person or persons
bringing the child to the home, the date of its discharge and the
name and address of the person to whom it was delivered on dis-
charge, and such other information as the State board shall prescribe.
Section 4. The licensee of any such boarding house shall within
three days of the reception of any child for boarding or lodging,
and within three days of its discharge, notify the State board of
public welfare or local board of health or local health officer, giving
the name, age and address, of the child, its parents and the person
from whom or by whom respectively it was received. Notice of the
death of any child in such boarding house shall be sent immediately
to the local board of health and to the State board of public welfare.
Section 5. The State board of public welfare, the State board of
health, and the local board of health in which a licensed boarding
house or nursery is located shall, through their officers or agents,
visit and inspect such place at least once in every three months. They
may at any time visit such place and call for and examine the records
which are required to be kept and inquire into all matters concerning
such place and the children therein. The licensee shall give all infor-
mation to such inspectors and afford them every facility for viewing
the premises and seeing the inmates. The said inspectors shall
make reports of‘conditions in said places and such report shall be
kept by the State board of public welfare.
Section 6. No officer or agent or employee of the State board
of public welfare, or the local board of health of the city or county
where such licensed boarding house or nursery is located, or any
person who has held such position, shall, directly or indirectly, disclose
the contents of the records herein provided for, or facts learned about
the children or their parents except upon inquiry before a court of
justice, or by order of such court or justice, at a coroner’s inquest,
or for the information of the State board of public welfare, or the
State board of health, or the local board of health of the city or county
in which said boarding house or nursery is located; provided, how-
ever, that nothing herein shall prohibit the State board of public
welfare from disclosing such facts with the consent of the parents
of said child to such persons as may be in the interest of the child.
Section 7. Every person who violates any of the provisions of
this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon convictior
shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars,
or by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.