Chap. 548.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1014-a, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, relating to private funds of patients in State hospitals and
colonies and the use and investment of such funds. [H 279]

Approved April 6, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section ten hundred fourteen-a of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 1014-a. The State Hospital Board is authorized and em-
powered, in its discretion, to provide for the deposit with the
steward or other proper officer of any hospital or colony under the
supervision, management and control of such board, of any money given
or provided for the purpose of supplying extra comforts, conveniences or
services to any patients therein and any money otherwise received and
held from, for or on behalf of any such patient. All funds so provided
or received shall be deposited to the credit of such hospital or colony in
a special fund in a bank or banks designated by the Board, and shall be
disbursed by the said officer as may be required by the respective donors,
or as directed by the superintendent. The superintendent of each such
hospital or colony shall furnish the Board annually a statement showing
the amount so received and deposited, the amount expended, and the
amount remaining in such special fund at the end of such year, and the
Board shall have authority to invest so much as it may deem proper,
of the amount so remaining, in United States Government bonds, or
other securities authorized by law for the investment of fiduciary funds:
the interest from such investments may in the discretion of the Board
be expended as a part of a patients’ amusement fund.

If any patient for whose benefit any such fund has heretofore or shall
hereafter be provided, has departed or shall hereafter depart from any
such hospital or colony, leaving any unexpended balance in such fund,
and the superintendent of the hospital or colony, in the exercise of reason-
able diligence, has been or shall be unable to find the person or persons
entitled to such unexpended balance, the Board may, in its discretion and
after the lapse of three years from the date of such departure, authorize
the use of such balance for the benefit of all or any part of the patients
then in such hospital or colony.

Any expenditures heretofore made of such balances remaining to the
credit of patients who have left any such hospital or colony, where
such expenditures have been for the benefit of such hospital or colony
or its patients and has been authorized or approved by its Special Board
or the General Board, or shall hereafter be approved by the State
Hospital Board, are hereby ratified, approved and validated.