CHAPTER 239

An Act to amend and reenact § 63-78.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the acceptance and expenditure of certain funds on behalf of chil-
dren entrusted to local boards of public welfare when no guardian
has been appointed.

(H 619]

Approved March 8, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

_ That § 63-73.1 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 63-73.1. Any local board of public welfare is authorized and em-
powered 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 guar-
dian has been appointed, funds or money paid or tendered as pension,
compensation, insurance or other benefit from the Veterans’ Administra-
tion, 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.

Whenever any child shall be discharged by the local board, all such
funds held by the local board shall be paid to the child’s guardian if such
funds exceed one thousand dollars upon such guardian posting bond as
may be required by law, or disbursed in accordance with § 8-750, if the
sum does not exceed one thousand dollars.