Chap. 201.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1004 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to hospitals and colonies for the insane, epileptic, feeble-
minded and inebriate. {H 291]

Approved March 11, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section one thousand four of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1004. Hospitals and colonies continued; how managed.—
(a) The State hospitals for the insane established at Williamsburg,
Staunton, Marion and Petersburg, shall be continued as established and
located, and shall be under the management of the State Hospital Board.
The departments for the criminal insane as established at the South-
western State Hospital at Marion and at Central State Hospital at
at Petersburg shall also be continued as established and located. These
departments shall continue to be used for the purpose of holding in
custody and ‘caring for such persons as are declared insane or feeble-
minded after conviction of any crime and while serving sentence there-
for in the penitentiary, or in any other penal institution, or in any of
the reformatories or elsewhere; persons in custody under complaint
or indictment for any crime who prior to trial are adjudged insane
or feeble-minded; such persons in custody under complaint or indict-
ment for any crime as the court in its discretion orders there for proper
care and observation pending the determination of their mental con-
dition; persons who have been adjudged insane or feeble-minded at
the time when, but for their insanity or feeble-mindedness, they should
have been tried; and such other regularly committed: patients as in
the opinion of the superintendent require confinement in such depart-
ment, provided that the confinement of each of those in the last mentioned
classification shall be reported by the superintendent together with his
reasons for their confinement to the State Hospital Board at its next
meeting following. .

(b) The colony for the care of the epileptic and feeble-minded at
Madison Heights, Amherst County, heretofore known as the State
Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-minded, shall be continued as estab-
lished and shall hereafter be known as the “Lynchburg State Colony”
and shall be under the management and control of the State Hospital
Board; the colony for the care of the colored feeble-minded, located
partly in Prince George and partly in Dinwiddie Counties, with the
name “Petersburg State Colony”, shall be continued as established and
shall be under the management and control of the.State Hospital Board ;
and the department for colored epileptics as established at Central State
Hospital shall be continued as established and located and shall be under
the management and control of the State Hospital Board. All patients
adjudged to be feeble-minded or epileptic by regular commissions to
determine the mental condition of such patients and committed as such
to any of these institutions whether by a commission and justice of the
peace, or by court order, who have been found by the superintendent of
the institution to be feeble-minded or epileptic and who appear on the
records of the institutions to have been so admitted, are hereby declared
to be lawfully committed patients of the Lynchburg State Colony, the
Petersburg State Colony, or of the department for colored epileptics, as
the case may be.

(c) <A patient comnutted to any of the hospitals or colonies, except
one committed by court order to one of the departments for the criminal
insane, may be transferred by order of the Board to any other of the
hospitals or colonies and when so transferred is hereby declared to be
a lawfully committed patient of the hospital or colony to which he is
transferred, provided no white person shall be transferred to an institu-
tion used exclusively for colored persons or vice versa.

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