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Volume | 1932 |
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Law Number | 388 |
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Chap. 388.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1050, 1051, 1052 and 1053 of
the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, and section 1050-a of the Code of
Virginia, all of said sections relating to appointment of committees and trustees
for certain persons. [H B 305]
Approved March 29, 1932 .
I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sections
one thousand and fifty, one thousand and fifty-one, one thousand and
fifty-two and, one thousand and fifty-three of the Code of V irginia, as
heretofore amended, and section one thousand and fifty-a of the Code
of Virginia, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 1050. When person adjudged insane court to appoint com-
mittee for him.—If a person be found insane by a judge or justice of
the peace before whom he is examined, or in a court in which he is
charged with crime, the circuit court of the county or the corporation
or circuit court of the city of which he is an inhabitant, or such other
courts in said city as have jurisdiction to appoint committees for insane
persons, except that the chancery court shall have exclusive jurisdiction
of such matters in the city of Richmond, but nothing herein contained
shall apply to or affect the present jurisdiction of the hustings court,
part two, of the city of Richmond, shall appoint a committee for him,
and when a person adjudged to be an epileptic and committed to a
hospital or colony is found by the superintendent thereof after observa-
tion and examination to be insane, the circuit court of the county or
corporation or circuit court of the city of his residence, or the chancery
court of the city of Richmond, if he is a resident of the city of Rich-
mond, after reasonable notice to such person shall, on the sworn cer-
tificate of the superintendent, that such person is insane, and upon
such other evidence as stich court may deem proper and require, ap-
point a committee for him.
When the rights of creditors will not be affected, the committee of
any person lawfully committed to any such hospital or colony may,
after making adequate provision for those dependent on such person
or his estate for support, apply any part or the whole of the residue
of the income from his estate to the purpose of providing such com-
forts and luxuries to such person as may be permitted by the super-
intendent of such hospital or colony; and may pay the same to the
steward of such hospital or colony. The steward of any such hospital
or colony receiving money as prescribed in this section shall annually
on or before the first day of July, after such sum or sums have been
paid render to the committee of the aforementioned person an itemized
statement showing the receipts and disbursements of money received
from such committee, accompanied by. a certificate from the superin-
tendent of such institution that such expenditures were authorized by
him, and that none of the expenditures were for anything in the
ordinary maintenance of such person.
And all appointments made by the circuit courts of the cities, be-
tween January thirteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty, and the date
this act becomes effective, both inclusive, are hereby declared to be
valid and of full force and effect.
Section 1050-a. Trustees for incompetent ex-service men.—When-
ever any former soldier, sailor or marine, or other ex-service person,
of the United States is found to be incompetent by the medical au-
thorities of the United States veterans’ bureau, on motion of the United
States veterans’ bureau, or any person in interest, the circuit court of
the county, or the corporation court of the city, of which such ex-
service person is a legal resident, or such other courts in said city as
have jurisdiction to appoint committees for insane persons, except that
the chancery court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of such matters in
the city of Richmond, in lieu of appointing a committee, or adjudging
such ex-service person insane, shall appoint a trustee for such ex-
service man, where it appears to the court that a trustee is needed for
the purpose of receiving and administering such benefits of compensa-
tion and insurance as might be paid by the United States government.
Such trustee, in addition to such duties and obligations imposed upon
him under his trust by the federal government, shall be subject to such
State laws as are now in force or hereafter enacted applicable to the
appointment and administration of committees for insane persons.
Section 1051. When committee of residents appointed in other
cases.—If a person residing in this State, not so found, be suspected
of being insane, the circuit court of the county or corporation or circuit
court of the city of which such person is an inhabitant, or such other
courts in said city as have jurisdiction to appoint committees for insane
persons, except that the chancery court shall have exclusive jurisdiction
of such matters in the city of Richmond, shall, on the application of
any party interested, proceed to examine into the state of mind of such
person, and upon being satisfied that such person is insane, such court
shall appoint one or two persons as committee for such person.
And all appointments made by the circuit courts of the cities, be-
tween January thirteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty and the date
this act becomes effective, both inclusive, are hereby declared to be valid
and of full force and effect.
Section 1052. When, of nonresidents.—lf a person residing out of
the State, but having property therein, be suspected of being insane, the
circuit court of the county or corporation or circuit court of the city,
or such other courts in said city as have jurisdiction to appoint com-
mittees for insane persons, except that the chancery court shall have
exclusive jurisdiction of such matters in the city of Richmond, where-
in said property or greater part of it is, shall, upon like application and
being satisfied that he is insane, appoint a committee for him.
And all appointments made by the circuit courts of the cities, be-
tween January thirteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty, and the date
this act becomes effective, both inclusive, are hereby declared to be
valid and of full force and effect.
Section 1053. Bond of committee; judge may appoint in vacation;
when sheriff or sergeant made committee.—The court making such ap-
pointment shall take from such committee a bond in such penalty and
with such surety as it may deem sufficient ; and where a person is found
insane under the provisions of section ten hundred and fifty, ten hun-
dred and fifty-one and ten hundred and fifty-two the judge of the
chancery court of the city of Richmond shall have exclusive jurisdic-
tion of such matters in the city of Richmond or the judge of the circuit
court of the county or corporation or circuit court of the city, of which
he is an inhabitant, in vacation, as well as such court, may appoint a
committee for him, and any committee so appointed shall be required
to give a bond in such penalty and with such surety as such court or
judge may deem sufficient. If any person appointed committee of an
insane person refuse the trust or fail to give bond as aforesaid within
two months from the date of his appointment, or if no person be ap-
pointed a committee within one month from the adjudication, the court,
or the judge thereof in vacation, on motion of any person interested,
may appoint some other person committee, taking from such committee
bond as aforesaid, or shall commit the estate of the insane person to
the sheriff of the county or sergeant of the city of which he is an in-
habitant, who shall be the committee, and he and the sureties in his
official bond shall be bound for the faithful performance of the trust.
The provisions of this chapter as to the appointment of committees of
insane persons shall apply to the appointment of committees of epi-
leptics, feeble-minded persons and idiots.
And all appointments made by the circuit court of the cities, be-
tween January thirteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty, and the date
this act becomes effective, both inclusive, are hereby declared to be valid
and of full force and effect.