Chap. 126.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 40, as amended, of Chapter
379 of the Acts of Assembly of 1938, approved March 31, 1938, known as the
“Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Act of 1938”, reducing the period
of residence required for eligibility for aid to the blind. [H 163]

Approved March 5, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1, That section forty, as amended, of chapter three hundred
seventy-nine of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred thirty-
eight, approved March thirty-one, nineteen hundred thirty-eight.
known as the “Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Act of
1938”, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 40. Eligibility for aid to the blind—A blind person
shall be eligible for aid to the blind if he

(a) Has, with correcting glasses, twenty/two hundredths
(20/200) vision or less, in the better eye;

(b) Has continuously resided in Virginia for one year imme-
diately preceding the date of application for aid to the blind.

(c) Is needy and is in need of public assistance ;

(d) Is not an inmate of or being maintained by any county,
municipal, State or national institution at the time of receiving
aid to the blind; such an inmate may however make application
for such aid, but such aid, if granted; shall not begin until after he
ceases to be such inmate; provided that in the event the Federal
Social Security Act or other appropriate federal statutes are so
amended as to permit funds appropriated by Congress to be used
for aid to blind persons who are inmates of public institutions, then
being an inmate of any such institution shall not disqualify any
such person for aid; and

(e) Has not made an assignment or transfer of property so as
to render himself eligible for aid to the blind under this act at any
time within five years immediately prior to the filing of the
application for such aid.
cu, 127] ACTS OF ASSEMBLY 297