CHAPTER 473

An Act to amend and reenact § 32-392, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to definitions of the words Hospital, N onprofit, Nurs-
ing School, Nurse Training Facility, and Council, so as to define Char-

atable Institution.
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Approved March 31, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 32-392, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 32-392. As used in this chapter:

_ (a) “Hospital” includes any general nonprofit hospital, but does
not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care.

(b) “Nonprofit” as applied to a hospital means any hospital owned
and operated by a corporation, foundation, authority, municipal corpora-
tion or association, no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may
lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual * ,
and which is not operated as a charitable institution as defined in this
section.

(c) “Nursing school” means a school approved by the State Board
of Nurse Examiners for the education and training of professional nurses
within this State and operated by, or in conjunction with, a hospital.

(d) “Nurse training facility” means a dormitory, classroom, labora-
tory or other related facility * under construction on April twenty-third,
nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, or * thereafter constructed, and used or
to be used by a nursing school exclusively for housing * and training
student nurses in training to become nurses but shall not include a facil-
ity for training beyond such level.

(e) “Council” means the Advisory Council on Nurse Training.

(f) “Charitable institution” as used in this section shall mean a hos-
pital which renders service to the public generally without imposing any
charge or fee upon any recipient of such service.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.