Chap. 540.—An ACT to amend and reenact Sections 10 and 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”, by
reducing period of residence in Virginia required as a condition for assistance
to the aged and aid to the blind. {[S 197]

Approved April 6, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. That sections ten and 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, and known
as the “Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Act of nineteen hundred
thirty-eight”, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 10. Eligibility for assistance——An aged person shall be
eligible for assistance if he

(a) Has attained the age of sixty-five years ;

(b) Has continuously resided in Virginia for one year immediately
preceding the date of application for such assistance ;

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

(d) Is not an inmate of or being maintained by any county, muni-
cipal, State, or national institution at the time of receiving such assist-
ance; such an inmate may however make application for old age assist-
ance, but such assistance 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 assistance to aged persons
who are inmates of public institutions, then being an inmate of any
such institution shall not disqualify any such person for assistance ;

(e) Has not made an assignment or transfer of property so as to
render himself eligible for old age assistance under this act at any time
within five years immediately prior to the filing of the application for
such assistance.

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 immediately
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, muni-
cipal, 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 institu-
tion 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.