CHAPTER 659

An Act to amend and reenact § 63-119,as amended, § 68-145, and § 68-209,

of the Code of Virainia, relating to the determination of amount of

Ol Age Assistance, Aid to Dependent Children and General Relief

so as to exempt certain income in making such determinations and so

as to provide how such determinations shall be made for aid to the
permanently and totally disabled.

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Approved April 7, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 63-119, as amended, § 63-145, and § 63-209 of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 63-119. The amount of assistance which any person shall receive
as aid to the permanently and totally disabled or the amount of assistance
which any person shall receive under provisions of this chapter shall be
determined with due regard to the property and income of the person and
any support which he may or should receive from other sources, including
assistance from persons legally responsible for his support, the necessary
expenditures of the individual and the conditions existing in each case,
and in accordance with rules and regulations made by the State Board,
except that the first fifty dollars earned per month by a person receiving
aid to the blind or eligible to receive such aid shall not be considered in
determining the amount of assistance that any person may receive under
this chapter. It shall be sufficient, when added to all other income and
support of the recipient, to provide such person with a reasonable
subsistence.

§ 63-145. The amount of aid which any dependent child shall receive
shall be determined with due regard to the property and income of such
child and any support which he may or should receive from other sources,
including assistance from persons legally responsible for his support, the
necessary expenditures of or for such child and the conditions existing in
each case, and in accordance with rules and regulations made by the State
Board, except that the first fifty dollars earned per month by a person
receiving aid to the blind or eligible to receive such aid shall not be con-
sidered in determining the amount of atd that any person may receive
under this chapter. It shall be sufficient, when added to all other income
and support of such child, to provide such child with a reasonable
subsistence.

§ 63-209. The amount of general relief which any person shall re-
ceive shall be determined with due regard to the property and income of
the person and any support which he may or should receive from other
sources, including assistance from persons legally responsible for his
support, the necessary expenditures of the individual and the conditions
existing in each case, and in accordance with rules and regulations made
by the State Board, except that the first fifty dollars earned per month by
a person receiving aid to the blind or eligible to receive such aid shall not
be considered in determining the amount of relief that any person may
receive under this chapter. It shall be sufficient, when added to all other
income and support of the recipient, to provide such person with a reason-
able subsistence.
An Act to amend and reenact § 8-88, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to venue so as to provide therefor in certain cases
nvolving nonresidents.

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Approved April 7, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8-38, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

_ § 8-88. Any action at law or suit in equity, except where it is other-
wise especially provided, may be brought in any county or corporation:

(1) Wherein any of the defendants may reside;

(2) If a corporation be a defendant, wherein its principal office is,
or wherein its mayor, rector, president, or other chief officer resides;

(3) If it be to recover a loss under a policy of insurance, either upon
property or life, wherein (a) the property insured was situated at the date
of the policy, or (b) the person whose life was insured resided at the
date of his death or at the date of the policy;

(3a) If it be to recover indemnity under a policy of accident and
health insurance, either or both, wherein (a) the policyholder resided at
the time of the happening for which indemnity is sought, or (b) where
the policyholder resided at the date of the policy;

(4) If it be to recover land or to subject it to a debt, wherein such
land or part of it may be;

(5) If it be a suit to construe a will or for the direction of the court
in the administration of the estate of a deceased person, or a suit or action
against a personal representative, curator, committee, guardian or other
fiduciary, in the county or corporation wherein the will was admitted to
probate, or such fiduciary qualified ;

(6) If it be against a foreign corporation, wherein its statutory agent
resides, or-where it has any estate or debts owing to it within this State;

(6a) If it be against a nonresident and the cause of action arose
because of the operation of a motor vehicle on the highways of this State,
wherein the plaintiff resides, or wherein the cause of action or any part
thereof arose;

(7) If it be against a defendant who resides without this State,
wherein he may be found and served with process or may have estate or
debts due him, provided, however, that nothing contained in this section
shall be so construed as to permit the joining of a domestic corporation or
resident individual as codefendant with a foreign corporation or non-
resident individual in a jurisdiction where such domestic corporation or
resident individual could not be sued;

(8) If it be on behalf of the Commonwealth, whether in the name of
the Attorney General or otherwise, it may be in the city of Richmond;

(9) If it be an action or a suit in which it is necessary or proper to
make any of the following public officers a party defendant, to-wit, the
Governor, Attorney General, State Treasurer, Secretary of the Common-
wealth, Comptroller, Superintendent of Public Instruction, or Commis-
sioner of Agriculture and Immigration; or in which it may be necessary
or proper to make a party defendant the State Board of Education, or
other public corporation composed of officers of government, of the funds
and property of which the Commonwealth is sole owner; or in which it
shall be attempted to enjoin or otherwise suspend or affect any judgment
or decree on behalf of the Commonwealth, or any execution issued on
such judgment or decree, it shall be only in the city of Richmond; and
(10) If any judge of a circuit or corporation court be interested in
a case which, but for such interest would be proper for the jurisdiction
of his court, the action or suit may be brought in any court in an adjoining
circuit or corporation. Any such action or suit brought in any county or
corporation within the territorial limits of the jurisdiction of such judge
shall, on motion of any party thereto, be removed to the circuit or corpora-
tion court of a county or corporation in an adjoining circuit.