Chap. 381.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an act
to continue the board of charities and corrections under the name of State
Board of Public Welfare; to provide for the composition and maintenance
of said board; to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide
how the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be appointed anc
compensated; to authorize the board to create a children’s bureau; to provide
how county and city boards of public welfare must or may be appointed, witl

certain exceptions, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such loca
boards; to authorize such local boards to appoint local superintendents o:
public welfare, and to prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of suck
superintendents if and when appointed; also to repeal sections 1888 to 1902
inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, approved February 27, 1922, so as t
authorize boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of counties t
appoint local superintendents of public welfare. [S B 334

Approved March 29, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sectior
fourteen of an act entitled an act to continue the board of char-
ities and corrections under the name of State Board of Public Wel-
fare; to provide for the composition and maintenance of said board ;
to prescribe its powers, duties and compensation; to provide how
the officers, assistants and employees of the board may be appointed
and compensated ; to authorize the board to create a children’s bureau ;
to provide how county and city boards of public welfare must or
may be appointed, with certain exceptions, and to prescribe the powers
and duties of such local boards; to authorize such local boards to
appoint local superintendents of public welfare, and to prescribe the
powers, duties and compensation of such superintendents if and when
appointed; also to repeal sections eighteen hundred and eighty-eight
to nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, ap-
proved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 14. It shall be the duty of each county or city board of
public welfare, by personal visitation or otherwise, to keep itself fully
advised of the conditions and management of all institutions of a
charitable or penal nature in its county, or city, and to that end shall
have full authority to inspect such institutions and shall be given
full access to the accounts and records thereof; to interest itself in
all matters pertaining to the social welfare of the people of its county,
or city, and to direct the activities of the superintendent of public
welfare, where there is one, and to co-operate with the juvenile and
domestic relations courts and all other agencies operating for the
social betterment of the county or city. The board of supervisors
or other governing body of the county or the board of public welfare
of the city shall, when it may deem it advisable and expedient, elect
from a list of eligibles submitted by the State board, a county or
city superintendent of public welfare and such assistants as the board
of supervisors or other governing body of such county or the city
board of public welfare may deem necessary who shall hold office at
the pleasure of the appointing board or until their successors are ap-
pointed and qualified, provided the board of supervisors or other gov-
erning body of any county may by resolution authorize the board of
public welfare of such county to appoint such superintendent of public
welfare. The board of supervisors or other governing body of the
county or city board shall, upon the request of the State board, of-
ficially consider the discharge and replacement of any county or
city superintendent. The salaries of the said officer and his assist-
ants shall be fixed by the board of supervisors, council or other gov-
erning body of the county or city, if in their discretion such officers
are necessary and shall be paid out of the county or city treasury.
I'wo or more counties, or a city of the first class and a county, may
unite in providing for a local superintendent of public welfare, and
the expenses incident to such employment may be divided in such
manner as they may agree upon.