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Volume | 1960 |
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Law Number | 386 |
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CHAPTER 386
An Act to amend and reenact §§ $7-125.1 and $7-125.5, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, relating to limit of liability for maintenance of
patients at certain hospitals and colonies, and to contracts for the
maintenance of such persons.
[S 114]
Approved March 30, 1960
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: .
1. That §§ 37-125.1 and 37-125.5, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
be amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 37-125.1. Any person who has been or who may be committed or
admitted to any hospital for the mentally-ill or colony for the epileptic
or the mentally-deficient and any person admitted or committed for drug
addiction or the intemperate use of alcohol, or the estate of any such person
or the person legally liable for the support of any such person, shall be
liable for the expenses of his care, treatment and maintenance in such
institution. Such expenses shall not exceed the actual per capita cost of
maintenance, or the sum of * one hundred twenty-five dollars per month,
whichever amount is the lesser, and shall be fixed by the Department of
Mental Hygiene and Hospitals, but in no event shall recovery be permitted
for amounts more than five years past due.
§ 37-125.5. The Department may contract with any patient’s parent,
guardian, trustee, committee, or the person legally liable for his support
and maintenance, and in arriving at the amount to be paid, the Depart-
ment shall have due regard for the financial condition and estate of the
patient or inmate, his present and future needs and the present and future
needs of his lawful dependents, and, whenever deemed necessary to pro-
tect him, or his dependents, may agree to accept a monthly sum for his
maintenance less than the sum of * one hundred twenty-five dollars per
month, or the actual per capita cost of his maintenance. All contracts
made by and between the Department and any person under legal dis-
abilities or any person acting in a fiduciary capacity for any such patient
providing for the payment of the expenses of such patient in any such
institution, shall be subject to the approval of any court of record having
jurisdiction over the incompetent’s estate or for the county or city of which
he is a legal resident, or from which he was legally committed; provided,
however, that the Department shall not require any patient’s parent,
guardian, trustee, committee, or the person legally liable for his support
and maintenance to deplete the patient’s estate below the sum of two thow-
sand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00).