Chap. 333.—An ACT to provide for the termination of employment of employees
of State and local governments and governmental agencies by reason of cer-
tain acts of omission or commission intended to obstruct or suspend activities
or functions of State and local governments, and to render such offending
employees ineligible for re-employment in any such service during certain period
of time thereafter. fH B 114]

Approved March 27, 1946

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

1. Section 1. Any employee of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or
of any county, city, town or other political subdivision thereof, or of any
agency of any one of them, who, in concert with two or more other such
employees, for the purpose of obstructing, impeding or suspending any
activity or operation of his employing agency or any other govern-
mental agency, strikes or wilfully refuses to perform the duties of his em-
ployment, shall, by such action, be deemed to have terminated his em-
ployment and shall thereafter be ineligible for employment in any posi-
tion or capacity during the next twelve months by the Commonwealth,
or any county, city, town, or other political subdivision of the State, or by
any department or agency of any of them. In any such case it shall be
the duty of the head of any department of the State Government, or the
mayor of any city or town, or the chairman of the board of supervisors
of any county, or the head of any other such employing agency, in which
such employee was employed, to forthwith notify such employee of the
fact of the termination of his employment, and at the same time serve
upon him in person or by registered mail a declaration of his ineligibility
for reemployment as hereinabove provided. Such declaration shall state
the facts upon which the asserted ineligibility is based.

Section 2. In the event that any such employee feels aggrieved
by said declaration of ineligibility he shall have the right within ninety
days after the date thereof to appeal to the circuit court of the county or
the corporation or hustings court of the city in which he was employed
by filing a petition therein for a review of the matters of law and fact
involved in or pertinent to said declaration of ineligibility. A copy of
said petition shall be served upon or sent by registered mail to the official
signing said declaration, who may file an answer thereto within ten days
after receiving same. ‘The said court or the judge thereof in vacation
shall, as promptly as practicable, hear the appeal de novo and notify the
employee and the said signer of the declaration of ineligibility of the time
and place of hearing. The court shall hear such testimony as may be
adduced by the respective parties and render judgment in accordance
with the law and the evidence, which said judgment shall be final.

Chap. 334—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1914 of the Code of Virginia
so as to provide for reimbursing cities two-thirds of the salaries of officers
and employees engaged in maintaining juvenile detention homes, and for the
payment of other expenses incident thereto. [H B 152]

Approved March 27, 1946
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section nineteen hundred fourteen of the Code of Virginia
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
Section 1914. Detention homes or other places of detention.—
Provision shall be made for the temporary detention of children coming
within the provisions of this chapter in a detention home or parental
school to be conducted as an agency of the city or county for that purpose,
or the judge of such court may arrange for the boarding of such children
temporarily in a private home or homes in the custody of some fit per-
son or persons subject to the provisions of the court, or the judge may
arrange with any incorporated institution, society, or association, ap-
proved by the State Board of Public Welfare or with any other court
which maintains a suitable place of detention for children for the use
thereof as a temporary detention home, but the court or justice shall not
send any child to jail or station house while awaiting trial or disposition
unless such child is extremely vicious or unruly or is charged with de-
linquency of an aggravated nature.

In the event that a detention home or parental school is established
by the court it shall be subject to visitation and inspection by the State
Board of Public Welfare, and shall be furnished and carried on so far as
possible as a.family home under the management of a superintendent
or matron appointed by the court from a list of eligibles submitted by
the State Board of Public Welfare, and the court may appoint such other
employees for such home as may be necessary. The necessary expenses
incurred in maintaining such detention home shall be a charge upon
the county or city, as the case may be, and the county board of super-
visors or the city council or other governing body shall make provision
therefor. The Commonwealth shall reimburse the county or city, as the
case may be, two-thirds of the salaries of officers and employees engaged
in the operation and maintenance of detention homes; and it shall further
reimburse said city or county for the entire reasonable cost of food and of
the clothing, medicines, lights, water, heat, disinfectants, beds and bed-
ding, and other necessary supplies required for the care of children held
in detention homes awaiting trial or disposition under the juvenile laws of
this State. Such reimbursements shall be paid in monthly instalments
by the State Treasurer out of funds appropriated in the general appropri-
ations act for criminal costs on warrants of the Comptroller, issued upon
vouchers approved and signed by the State Commissioner of Public Wel-
fare, or by such person as may be designated by said Commissioner.

In case the court shall arrange for the boarding of children tempo-
rarily detained in private homes or with any incorporated institution, so-
ciety or association, or in detention homes conducted by another city or
county, the cost of maintaining such children held awaiting trial or dis-
position under the juvenile laws of this State in boarding homes or other
institutions shall be paid monthly, according to schedules prepared and
adopted by the State Board of Public Welfare, by the State Treasurer
out of funds appropriated in the general appropriations act for criminal
costs, on warrants of the Comptroller, issued upon vouchers approved
by the State Commissioner of Public Welfare, or such other person as
may be designated by said Commissioner.