CHAPTER 188

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 37-77 as amended and 46-414 of the
Code of Virginia, relating to certain reports, copies and abstracts
furnished by clerks of courts, so as to fix the fees to be allowed clerks
therefor.

[S 212]
Approved March 5, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 37-77 as amended and 46-414 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 37-77. As soon as the records of proceedings before a commission
wherein a person is found to be mentally-ill, mentally-deficient, epileptic
or inebriate, is filed in the office of the clerk of the court pursuant to
§ 37-69, such clerk shall at once notify the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene
and Hospitals, giving the name and age, sex, and color of the mentally-ill,
epileptic, mentally-deficient, or inebriate person, the date of the finding
of the commission and the custody to which the mentally-ill, epileptic,
mentally-deficient or inebriate person was committed.

There shall be allowed to the clerk of a court of record a fee of fifty
cents for each report hereunder to be paid out of the State Treasury from
funds appropriated for criminal charges. Such payment shall be made on
warrants of the Comptroller issued upon an allowance made by the court.

§ 46-414. The clerk of the court, or the court when it has no clerk,
shall forward to the Commissioner a certified copy or abstract of any
conviction and of any forfeiture of bail or collateral deposited to secure
a defendant’s appearance in court unless the forfeiture has been vacated,
upon a charge of a violation of any provision of chapters 1 to 4 of this
title or of any law of this State pertaining to the operator or operation
of any motor vehicle, or of any similar ordinance of any city, county or
town, and a certified copy or abstract of any judgment for damages,
the rendering and nonpayment of which judgment, under the terms of this
title, require the Commissioner to suspend the operator’s or chauffeur’s
license and registrations in the name of the judgment debtor, every such
copy or abstract to be forwarded to the Commissioner immediately upon
the expiration of fifteen days after the conviction or forfeiture or judg-
ment has become final without appeal or other action in the time within
which appeal or other action might have been perfected, or has become
final by affirmance on appeal, and has not been otherwise stayed or
satisfied.

There shall be allowed to the clerk of a court of record a fee of fifty
cents for each report hereunder to be paid out of the State Treasury from
funds appropriated for criminal charges. Such payment shall be made on
warrants of the Comptroller issued upon an allowance made by the court.