Chap. 130.—An ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a new
section numbered 1014-a, authorizing the State Hospital Board to provide
for the receipt, custody and expenditure of private funds provided for the
benefit of patients in State hospitals and colonies; to authorize, under cer-
tain conditions, the expenditure of such funds, whether heretofore or here-
after received, for the benefit of all or any part of the patients in such
hospital or colony; and to ratify, approve and validate, certain such ex-
penditures heretofore made. [S B 104]

Approved March 12, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a new section num-
bered ten hundred and fourteen-a, which new section shall read as
follows:

Section 1014-a. The State Hospital Board is hereby authorized
and empowered, in its discretion, to provide for the deposit with
the steward or other proper officer of any hospital or colony under
the supervision, management and control of such Board, of any money
given or provided for the purpose of supplying extra comforts, con-
veniences or services to any patients therein and any money otherwise
received and held from, for or on behalf of any such patient. All
funds so provided or received shall be deposited to the credit of such
hospital or colony in a special fund in a bank or banks designated by
the Board, and shall be disbursed by the said officer as may be re-
quired by the respective donors, or as directed by the superintendent.
The superintendent of each such hospital or colony shall furnish the
Board annually a statement showing the amount so received and de-
posited, the amount expended, and the amount remaining in such
special fund at the end of such year.

If any patient for whose benefit any such fund has heretofore or
shall hereafter be provided, has departed or shall hereafter depart
from any such hospital or colony, leaving any unexpended balance
in such fund, and the superintendent of the said hospital or colony,
in the exercise of reasonable diligence, has been or shall be unable
to find the person or persons entitled to such unexpended balance, the
said Board may, in its discretion and after the lapse of three years
from the date of such departure, authorize the use of such balance
for the benefit of all or any part of the patients then in such hospital
or colony.

Any expenditures heretofore made of such balances remaining
to the credit of patients who have left any such hospital or colony,
where such expenditures have been for the benefit of such hospital
or colony or its patients and has been authorized or approved by its
Special Board or the General Board, or shall hereafter be approved
by the State Hospital Board, are hereby ratified, approved and vali-
dated.