CHAPTER 641

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 68-101, as amended, and 68-105 of the
Code of Virginia, relating, respectively, to definitions and_appropria-
tions under the Virginia Public Welfare and Assistance Law

[H 584]
Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: oo,

1. That §§ 63-101, as amended, and 63-105 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows: . .

§ 63-101. The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this
law shall have the following meaning, unless a different meaning clearly
appears from the context: . . .

(a) “Applicant” means a person who applies for public assistance,
or for whom assistance is applied for, under this law, except that in
Chapter 6 of this title it means a person who applies for old age assistance,
and in Chapter 8 of this title it means a blind person who applies for aid
to the blind or for whom aid to the blind is applied for, under this law;

(b) “Aid” in Chapter 7 of this title means aid to dependent children;
“aid’’ in Chapter 8 of this title means aid to the blind; .

(c) “Aid to dependent children” means money payments with respect
to a dependent child or dependent children, or for medical care on behalf
of such child or children; ee

(d) “Aid to the blind’? means money payments to blind individuals,
or for medical care on behalf of such persons; .

(d1) “Aid to the permanently and totally disabled” means money
payments in accordance with. § 63-220.1 of the Code of Virginia to a
person who is * disabled, or for medical care on behalf of such person;

(e) “Assistance” means old age assistance; .

(f) “Blind person” means an individual who has, with correcting
glasses, twenty/two hundredths vision or less in the better eye ; .

(g) “Commission” means the Virginia Commission for the * Visually
Handicapped;

(h) “Commissioner” means the State Commissioner of Public Wel-
fare;

(i) “Dependent child” means a child under the age of sixteen or, if
regularly attending school, under the age of eighteen, who has been
deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death, continued
absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent, and
who 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;
(j) “Federal Social Security Board” means the Social Security Board
created under Title VII of the Federal Social Security Act, enacted by the
Congress of the United States and approved August fourteenth, nineteen
hundred and thirty-five, and any department or agency which may here-
after be designated or created as the successor of such Board ;

(k) “General relief” means money payments and other forms of
relief provided for in Chapter 9 of this title; . .

(1) “Local board” means the local board of public welfare in each
county and each city of the second class, and the officer in charge of the
department or division of public welfare in a city of the first class, as
provided in §§ 63-50 to 63-60; . .

(m) “Local superintendent” means the local superintendent of public
welfare provided for in §§ 63-75 to 63-85;

(n) “Old age assistance” means the money payments to needy per-
sons sixty-five years of age or older, as provided for in Chapter 6 of this
title, or for medical care on behalf of such persons;

(o) “Person” means an individual ; .

(p) “Public assistance” means and includes assistance, old age
assistance, aid, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, aid to the per-
manently and totally disabled, and general relief ; . .

(q) “Recipient” means any person who receives public assistance
under this law, except that in Chapter 6 of this title it means any person
who receives old age assistance, and in Chapter 8 of this title it means
any person who receives aid to the blind; . .

(r) “Secretary” means the executive secretary of the Virginia Com-
mission for the * Visually Handicapped; .

(s) “State Board” means the Board of Welfare and Institutions;

(t) “Merit system plan” means those rules and regulations promul-
gated by the State Board in the development and operation of a system
of personne] administration meeting requirements of the Federal Social
Security Board. :

§ 63-105. The board of supervisors or other governing body of each
county and the council or other governing body of each city in the State
shall each year, appropriate such sum or sums of money as shall be suffi-
cient to provide for the payment of public assistance including cost of
administration, under the provisions of this law within such county or city.
The respective governing bodies of the counties and cities are authorized
to appropriate such sum or sums of money as shall be sufficient to provide
for the foster care of children committed to the local boards of public
wellore pursuant to the provisions of § 16-172.44 (8) of the Code of

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