CHAPTER 387

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
87-230.1, to provide for disposal of unclaimed personal property of
certain patients in State hospitals and colonies. 941

[S 115]

Approved March 30, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
37-230.1 as follows:

§ 37-230.1. If any patient of a hospital or colony as defined in § 37-1.1,
upon being released or having escaped, leaves any article or articles of
personal property, including bonds, money and any intangible assets, in
the custody of such hospital or colony, the superintendent thereof may, in
his discretion, after the lapse of three years from the date of such release
or escape, if no claim therefor has been made by the owner, sell such per-
sonal property, either at public or private sale, if the same be not of a value
greater than one hundred dollars. Whenever such sale or sales are made,
the superintendent shall deposit the net proceeds thereof in the Patients
Welfare Fund and the same shall become a part of such fund.