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Volume | 1950 |
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Law Number | 290 |
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CHAPTER 290
AN ACT to amend and reenact §§ 54-864, 54-865, 54-866, 54-867
and 54-868 of the Code of 1950, relating to the Department
of Professional and Occupational Registration, so as to
prescribe the duties of the Director thereof with respect
to the State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors;
and to appropriate certain funds.
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Approved April 4, 1950
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 54-864, 54-865, 54-866, 54-867 and 54-868 of the
Code of 1950 be amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 54-864. Administration; certain powers and duties of
Director with respect to eight boards.—It shall be the duty of
the Director to perform the administrative duties of the follow-
ing boards and agencies of the Commonwealth: (1) The State
Board of Accountancy; (2) The State Board for the Examina-
tion and Certification of Architects, Professional Engineers
and Land Surveyors; (3) The Examining Board for the Certifi-
cation of Clinical Psychologists; * (4) The State Board for the
Certification of Librarians; (5) The Board of Examiners of
Mines, created by Chapter 150 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of nineteen hundred and forty; (6) The Board of Com-
missioners to Examine Pilots; (7) The Virginia Real Estate
Commission; (8) The Board of Veterinary Examiners.
Each of the seventeen boards designated in this section
and § 54-865 is hereby transferred to the Department of Pro-
fessional and Occupational Registration, and each shall be a
separate board within said Department. All of the administra-
tive functions of the eight boards designated in this section shall
be under the direction and supervision of the Director, and it
shall be the duty of the members of each of the several boards
designated in this section to co-operate with the Director to
the end that his powers of direction and supervision of the ad-
ministrative functions of each board shall not be impaired.
In the performance and discharge of his duties hereunder
with respect to the eight boards designated in this section only,
the Director shall (1) be the secretary of each board; (2) main-
tain all records for each board; (3) collect and account for all
fees prescribed by law to be paid into each board and account
for and deposit the moneys so collected in the manner prescribed
by the several acts creating said boards; (4) make and file an-
nually with the Governor a consolidated report with respect to
each board; (5) employ such personnel and assistance as may
be required for the operation of the said boards; (6) enforce
all regulations promulgated by said boards; and (7) exercise
such other powers as may be necessary to function as the sole
administrative officer and director of each of said boards.
§ 54-865. Certain duties of Director with respect to nine
boards.—It shall be the duty of the Director to receive, account
for and deposit the moneys turned over to him by the following
boards: (1) The State Boxing and Wrestling Commission; (2)
the Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners; (3) The State
Dry Cleaners Board; (4) The Board of Medical Examiners of
the State of Virginia; (5) The State Board of Examiners of
Nurses; (6) The Virginia State Board of Examiners in Optom-
etry; (7) The State Board of Pharmacy; (8) The State Regis-
tration Board for Contractors; (9) The State Board of Embalm-
ers and Funeral Directors of Virginia.
The Director shall perform such other duties for the nine
boards designated in this section as may be requested of him
by the said nine boards, but said Director shall not exercise any
authority or powers with respect to any of the functions of said
boards with regard to the selection, employment or tenure of the
personnel required in the operation of said Boards, nor shall
said Director exercise any authority over said nine boards with
respect to the enforcement of any rules or regulations promul-
gated by said nine boards, nor in any other respects whatsoever.
All administrative and enforcement powers now vested by law
in each of the said nine boards designated in this section are
reserved to said boards.
Each of the nine boards designated in this section shall turn
over to the Director all moneys collected by the several boards.
§ 54-866. Transfer of funds and accounts.—All funds and
accounts of each of the * boards not enumerated in § 54-865 are
hereby transferred to the Department.
§ 54-867. Departmental expenses.—The compensation of
the Director and the employees within the Department, includ-
ing the compensation of the members of each board, shall be
paid out of the total funds collected on account of the services
performed by those certain eight boards not enumerated in
§ 54-865, and such compensation shall be charged to the accounts
of the respective boards in such proportion as the Director of
the Budget shall prescribe, and in furtherance of the accom-
plishment of this function the Director shall maintain a separate
account for each board showing the moneys collected on its be-
half and the expenses allocated to each board.
§ 54-868. Certain board powers preserved and boards con-
tinued; others transferred.—All rights and powers heretofore
vested in each of the eight boards designated in § 54-864 with
respect to the examination of applicants, the granting, suspen-
sion and revocation of certificates, permits and licenses, and
the regulations of professions and occupations are hereby pre-
served and continued in said boards undiminished and unim-
paired by any of the provisions of this chapter, it being the sole
intent and purpose of this chapter to co-ordinate and assemble
said boards within the Department of Professional and Occupa-
tional Registration so as to provide that all of the purely admin-
istrative and enforcement functions with respect to said boards
shall be exercised by said Department.
The boards are hereby continued within the Department,
and all existing provisions of law with respect to the appointment
and qualification of the members thereof are also continued, and
all powers not specifically reserved to the several boards under
this chapter are transferred to and vested in the Director.
2. There is hereby appropriated to the State Board of Em-
balmers and Funeral Directors for each year of the biennium
ending June 30, 1952, ten thousand dollars of the moneys col-
lected as fees under the provisions of Chapter 10 of Title 54 of
the Code of Virginia, to be expended by such Board in carrying
out the provisions of such chapter, subject to the provisions of
Chapter 24 of Title 54 of the Code; provided, that any moneys
not expended for such purposes during the biennium ending
June 30, 1952 shall revert to the general fund in the State
treasury.