Chap. 399.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 16 of Chapter 14 of the
Acts of Assembly of 1947, Extra Session, approved January 29, 1947, to
provide for the deposit of State funds in the hospital construction fund; and
to amend said chapter by adding two new sections numbered 16-a and 16-b,
prescribing conditions for the deposit and expenditure of State funds, and to
confer certain powers upon the governing bodies of counties and cities. [H 86]

Approved April 1, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section sixteen of chapter fourteen of the Acts of Assembly
of nineteen hundred forty-seven, Extra Session, approved January
twenty-nine, nineteen hundred forty-seven, be amended and reenacted,
and that such chapter be amended by adding two new sections numbered
sixteen-a, and sixteen-b, such amended and new sections being as
follows:

Section 16. Hospital construction fund—The Commissioner is
hereby authorized to receive federal funds in behalf of, and transmit
them to, such applicants. There is hereby established separate and apart
from all other public moneys of this State a hospital construction fund.
Money received from the federal government for a construction project
approved by the Surgeon General and moneys appropriated by the
General Assembly for such projects shall be deposited to the credit
of this fund and shall be used solely for payments due applicants for
work performed, or purchases made, in carrying out approved projects.
Invoices for all payments from the Hospital Construction Fund shall bear
the signature of the Commissioner or his duly authorized agent for
such purpose.

Section 16-a. (a) Funds appropriated by the State for carrying
out the purposes of this act shall be deposited in the Hospital Construc-
tion Fund established by section sixteen of this act only when the
Commissioner certifies to the State Treasurer that

(1) Application has been made to the Surgeon General for federal
funds for a construction project conforming to federal and State require-
ments ; and

(2) Sufficient funds, inclusive of State funds provided in accordance
with this act, are available to the applicant for federal aid hereunder
to defray its portion of the cost of construction of the project.

The State Treasurer shall, upon receipt of such certificates, deposit in
the Hospital Construction Fund such sums as will in the opinion of
the Commissioner having due regard to State funds available, equitably
match funds available from federal and local sources, in order to carry
out the purposes of this act; and should additional State funds become
available, they shall be equitably apportioned between the several ap-
proved projects on which deposits of State funds have been previously
made on the basis of their respective priorities, and in the manner afore-
said. No moneys shall be so deposited until the approval in writing of
the Governor shall have been first obtained. The funds so deposited
shall be expended as provided in section sixteen of this act.

Section 16-b. The governing bodies are authorized to accept and
match federal funds available for the purposes of this act, to raise funds
by taxation for the purpose of hospital construction and operation, to
deposit county and city funds in such depository as the federal govern-
ment may require, to accept and expend federal and other funds available
for hospital construction, to enter into such contracts as the federal
government may require for the performance of any conditions imposed
upon the acceptance of federal funds, and to do all necessary and proper
things not included in the foregoing which may be required to obtain
federal funds for the purpose of constructing hospitals to the construction
of which any such county or city is contributing.