Chap. 288.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1014-a of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to private funds of patients in State hospitals and colonies and
the use and investment of such funds. [H B 141]

Approved March 30, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
ten ‘hundred and fourteen-a of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
re-enacted, 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 super-
vision, management and control of such board, of any money given or
provided for the purpose of supplying extra comforts, conveniences 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 ina
special fund in a bank or banks designated by the Board, and shall be
disbursed by the said officer as may be required 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 deposited, the amount expended, and the
amount remaining in such special fund at the end of such year, and the
Board shall have authority to invest so much as it may deem proper, of
the amount so remaining, in United States Government bonds, or other
securities authorized by law for the investment of fiduciary funds.

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 de-
parture, 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 validated. |