CHAPTER 495

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-115, 68-141 and 68-179 of the Code of
Virginia, relating, respectively, to eligibility for old age assistance,
eligibility for aid to dependent children, and eligibility for aid to the

blind
[S 219]
Approved April 5, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 63-115, 63-141 and 63-179 of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 638-115. 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, provided that property
owned and occupied by an applicant as his residence shall not disqualify
such person for assistance;

(d) Is not an inmate of or being maintained by any county, municipal,
state, or national institution at the time of receiving such assistance; such
an inmate may however make application for old age assistance, but such
assistance, if granted shall not begin until after he ceases to be such in-
mate; 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 law at any time
within five years immediately prior to the filing of the application for such
assistance; and

(f) Is not a patient in an institution for tuberculosis or mental dis-
eases or in any type of medical institution as a result of a diagnosis of tu-
berculosis or phychosis.
§ 63-141. A dependent child shall be eligible for aid to dependent
children if such child:

(a) Has not attained the age of sixteen years, or if regularly attending
school has not attained the age of eighteen years;

Has resided in this State for one year immediately preceding the
application for such aid * , or was born * within one year immediately
preceding * the application, if * the parent or other relative with whom the
child is living has resided within this State for one year immediately pre-
ceding such birth;

(c) Is deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death,
continued absence from home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent;

(d) Is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother,
brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle or
aunt in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as
his or their own home; 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 dependent children
living elsewhere than in such residence or home, then living in such resi-
dence or home shall not be necessary to qualify such child for aid; and

(e) Is needy and in need of public assistance.

§ 63-179. A blind person shall be eligible for aid to the blind if he:

(a) Has, with correcting glasses, twenty/two hundredths 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, municipal,
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 institution shall not disqualify any such person for aid; *

(e) Has not made an assignment or transfer of property so as to
render himself eligible for aid to the blind under this law at any time within
five years immediately prior to the filing of the application for such aid;
a

(f) Is not a patient in an institution for tuberculosis or mental dis-
eases or in any type of medical institution as a result of a diagnosis of tu-
berculosis or phychosis.