Chap. 474.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1914, as amended, 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 453]

Approved April 2, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section nineteen hundred fourteen of the Code of Virginia
as heretofore amended be amended and reenacted so as to read as
follows :

Section 1914. Detention homes or other places of detention.—Pro-
vision 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 pur-
pose, 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 person or persons subject to the provisions of the court, or the judge
may arrange with any incorporated institution, society, or association,
approved 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 delinquency of an aggravated nature.

In the event that a detention home or parental school is so established
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 from a list of eligibles submitted by the State Board of Public
Welfare and 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 supervisors or the city council or other governing body
shall make provision therefor. The Commonwealth shall reimburse the
city or county, 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 bedding, 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 installments 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 and
signed by the State Commissioner of Public Welfare, or by such person
as may be designated by said Commissioner.

In case the court shall arrange for the boarding of children tempor-
arily detained in private homes or with any incorporated institution,
society, or association, or in detention homes conducted by another city
or county, the cost of maintaining such children held awaiting trial
or disposition under the juvenile laws of the State in boarding homes
or other institutions shall be paid monthly, according to schedules pre-
pared 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.