Chap. 134.—An ACT to provide for the control, management, maintenance and
operation of the DeJarnette State Sanatorium; to provide how patients may
be received therein; to prescribe the purposes for which the revenues derived
therefrom shall be used; to appropriate the same for such purposes; and to
repeal Chapter 360 of the Acts of Assembly of 1934, approved March 29, 1934,
and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act. [S B 73]

Approved March 9, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia as follows:

1. Section 1. The sanatorium heretofore designated and known
as the DeJarnette State Sanatorium, and which has been considered a
special unit of the Western State Hospital, for voluntary pay patients,
shall hereafter be an independent unit within the State Department of
Mental Hygiene and Hospitals, and shall be under the control, super-
vision and direction of the State Hospital Board in the same manner as all
other State hospitals and colonies.

Section 2. The purpose of the DeJarnette State Sanatorium shall
be to furnish to white residents of Virginia, affected with nervous dis-
eases, mental diseases, alcoholism or drug addiction, modern sanatorium
care and treatment at the approximate cost of maintenance and operation
of said sanatorium.

Section 3. Any white person applying for admission to the De-
Jarnette State Sanatorium may be received therein as a patient if he is
mentally capable of affixing his signature to the papers of admission, or
of giving his consent to the signing of the papers of admission by a
relative or next friend, with knowledge of the consequences of such act,
and who, in the opinion of the superintendent of the said sanatorium, 1s
able to and agrees to pay for his care and treatment as a patient in such
sanatorium.

The superintendent is also authorized to receive into the DeJarnette
State Sanatorium as patients, persons who, in his opinion, are by reason
of their mental condition rendered incapable of applying for admission and
of affixing their signatures to, or of consenting to the signing of the pa-
pers of admission. In every such case, the application for admission shall
be made and the admission papers signed by a relative or next friend of
the person for whom admission 1s sought, which relative or next friend
shall agree to pay for the care and treatment of such person and, in the
opinion of the superintendent 1s financially able to pay for such care and
treatment. In such event such papers shall constitute a contract binding
on the relative or friend signing the same. But no person shall be ad-
mitted or received into this sanatorium as a patient unless such person be
admitted or received for treatment for mental or nervous diseases or con-
ditions arising from inebriety, or the use of drugs.

Section 4. The superintendent shall monthly report to the State
Hospital Board the condition of the DeJarnette State Sanatorium. Such
report shall show the financial condition of the DeJarnette State Sana-
torium at the end of the month, the number of patients received, dis-
charged, furloughed, died or removed by other causes during such month,
and such other information as may be required by the board.

Section 5. The State Hospital Board shall fix and regulate from
time to time, as may be necessary, the rates and charges to be charged
for the care and treatment of persons admitted to the DeJarnette State
Sanatorium, including reasonable interest charges on the investment and
depreciation on the buildings. Such rates and charges shall be sufficient
to provide and maintain in the DeJarnette State Sanatorium, without any
appropriations from the State for the cost of the maintenance and opera-
tion of such sanatorium, a standard of care and treatment equal to that
of efficient and well managed private sanatoriums.

Section 6. Under no circumstances shall any nonresident of the
State of Virginia be admitted as a patient in the said institution.

Section 7. All moneys collected or received by the DeJarnette State
Sanatorium, or by the State Hospital Board, for and on behalf of the
said sanatorium shall be paid into the State treasury. Such moneys
shall be set aside and constitute a special fund for the maintenance and op-
eration of the DeJarnette State Sanatorium, and are hereby specifically
appropriated tor such purposes to be paid out by the State Treasurer on
warrants of the Comptroller issued on vouchers signed by the superin-
tendent of the said sanatorium or some agent duly authorized by him for
such purpose.

2. Chapter three hundred sixty of the Acts of Assembly of nine-
teen hundred thirty-four, approved March twenty-nine, nineteen hun-
dred thirty-four, 1s hereby repealed ; and all other acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed to
the extent of such inconsistencies.