Chap. 3.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1005 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the boards of directors of the State hospitals and the colony
for epileptics and feeble-minded, so as to abolish the present general and
special boards of directors of said institutions; to provide for a single board
of directors to be known as the State Hospital Board, and to prescribe
its powers and duties; to provide for the appointment, suspension and
removal of the members of such board and to provide for the expenses
of the members of the said board and its secretary. [S B 3]

Approved December 24, 1936

I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
one thousand and six of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1006. (a) For the supervision, management and _ con-
trol of the several State institutions mentioned in section one thou-
sand and five, and such other similar institutions as may hereafter be
establ'shed. all of which institutions, whether heretofore or hereafter
established, are hereinafter referred to as State hospitals, there shall
be a s‘ngle board of directors, to be known and referred to as the
State Hospital Board, hereinafter sometimes called “the board.” The
said board shall consist of seven members to be appointed by the
Governor, subject to confirmation by the General .Assembly, if in
session when such appointment is made, and if not in session, then
at its next succeeding session. One member of the board shall be
appointed for a term of one year, two for a term of two years
each, two for a term of three years each, and two for a term of four
years each; subsequent appointments shall be for a term of four
years each, except appointments to fill vacancies, which shall be for
the unexpired terms. Members of the said board may be suspended
or removed by the Governor at his pleasure. Vacancies in the mem-
bership of the board shall be filled by the Governor subject to con-
firmation by the General Assembly as hereinabove provided.

(b) The board shall select one of its members as chairman, and
shall, with the approval of the Commissioner of Public Welfare, ap-
point one of the assistants to the said commissioner or some employee
in the Department of Public Welfare as secretary of the board. The
secretary shall keep in his office in the Department of Public Wel-
fare all of the records of the board, except such as the board shall
find necessary to be kept at the respective State hospitals.

(c) The board shall meet at least once a year at each of the State
hospitals, and at such other times and places as the board may deem
proper. Four members of the board shall constitute a quorum. The
members of the board shall each receive for attendance upon meetings
of the board their actual expenses; the secretary of the board shall
be paid his actual expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties
hereunder. The said expenses shall be paid proportionately out of the
moneys appropriated for the maintenance and operation of the said
State hospitals on warrants of the Comptroller issued upon vouchers
signed by the chairman of the board or such other person or persons
as shall be designated by the board for such purpose.

(d) The board shall have full supervision, management and control
of the said State hospitals. All the rights, powers and duties vested in
and conferred and imposed upon the special boards of directors of the
said State hospitals and the general board of directors thereof by law
are hereby transferred to, vested in, and conferred and imposed upon
the State Hospital Board herein provided for; provided that the said
board may in its discretion in respect to any one or more of the said
State hospitals, from time to time designate one or more members
of the board to exercise the rights and powers, and to perform the
duties, vested in and conferred and imposed upon special boards of
directors of the said State hospitals by an Act of the General Assembly
of Virginia, entitled “An act to provide for the sexual sterilization
of inmates of State institutions in certain cases,’ approved March
twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and in such event all
the rights, powers, and duties vested in and conferred and imposed
upon the special boards of directors of the said State hospitals by the
said act shall be transferred to, vested in, and conferred and imposed
upon the said member or members so designated by the State Hospital
Board.

(e) The terms of office of all members of the special boards of
directors of the several State hospitals and of the members of the
general board of directors of the said State hospitals in office on
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall terminate and
expire when this amended section takes effect.
(£) No member of the board shall be eligible to any other position
in any State hospital during the term for which he is appointed, or
for twelve months thereafter.

2. This act shall be in force and effect on and after July first,
nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.