CHAPTER 678

An Act to amend and reenact § 16-172.77, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to the supervision of ‘child or minor on parore. 5
H 650

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

1. That § 16-172.77 as amended of the Code of Virginia be amended
and reenacted as follows:

§ 16-172.77. When the Department returns a child or minor who
has been committed to its custody, to a local community for supervision
the Director may return the child or minor to either the local juvenile
and domestic relations court or the local department of public welfare
of the community. The agency to which the child or minor is returned
for supervision shall accept responsibility for this service. When a child
or minor ts so paroled for local supervision, he shall be deemed to be still
in the custody of the Department.

The local supervising agency shall furnish such child or minor a
written statement of the conditions of his parole and shall instruct him
regarding the same. In the event it ts determined by a court of competent
jurisdiction that the child or minor has violated the terms of his parole,
the said child or minor may then be returned to the Department.