CHAPTER 224

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section num-
bered 68-78.1, so as to permit local boards of public welfare to accept
and expend certain funds or money, and so as to require an anata

[H 68

Approved March 12, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
63-73.1, as follows:

§ 63-73.1. Any local board of public welfare is authorized and
empowered to accept and expend on behalf of and for the benefit of any
child or children committed or entrusted to its care under § 63-73, when
no guardian has been appointed, funds or money paid or tendered as
pension, compensation, insurance or other benefit from the Veterans’
Administration, or under the Railroad Retirement Act or the old-age and
survivors’ insurance provisions of the Federal Social Security Act, as
amended, or funds contributed or paid by parents or other persons for
the support of such child, and the local board may, from any such funds
received, provide for the current or future maintenance of such child.

When the child attains eighteen years or is emancipated the local
board shall deliver and pay to him all the estate and money in its posses-
sion, or with which it is chargeable, on his account and shall account to
him for all funds or money received or paid by the local board on behalf
of the child, provided, however, that the amount held for the child and
to ia paid directly to him does not exceed the sum of three hundred

ollars.