CHAPTER 316

An Act to amend and reenact 8§ 16.1-199 and 16.1-200 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to establishment and standards for the operation of
detention homes and providing for the management thereof.

(S 116]

Approved March 80, 1962
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 16.1-199 and 16.1-200 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 16.1-199. (a) Provision shall be made for the temporary detention of
children coming within the purview of this law (1) in a detention home
conducted as an agency of the city or county or any combination thereof
for that purpose, or (2) in a private home or homes selected by and under
the supervision of the court or local department of public welfare, or (3)
by an incorporated institution, society, or association licensed by the State
Board as a children’s agency, or (4) in a detention home conducted by
another county or city or any combination thereof. The court or judge
shall not send any child to a jail or station house while awaiting trial or
disposition except in accordance with the provisions of this law.

(b) The State Board is authorized and directed to prescribe the ne-
cessary positions required in the operation of detention homes, to fix salary
ranges for such positions, provided, however, that nothing herein shall
prevent the payment of salaries in excess of State approved ranges when
such excess is paid from local funds, and also to prescribe minimum stand-
ards for construction and equipment of detention homes or other facilities
and for feeding, clothing, medical attention, attendance and care of children
detained therein. It may prohibit by its order the detention of children in
any place of detention which does not meet such minimum standards and
designate some other place of detention for children who would otherwise
be held therein. Copies of each such order shall upon being issued be sent
to the person in charge of the detention facilities and to the judge of the
circuit court of the county or corporation court of the city in which the
facility is located. Orders of the Board shall be enforced by courts of record
as is provided for orders issued under § 53-134 and procedure shall be,
mutatis mutandis, as is provided for the enforcement of orders of the Board
under § 53-135.

§ 16.1-200. In the event that a detention home is established by a city
or county, or any combination thereof, it shall be subject to visitation, in-
spection and regulation by the State Board or its agents, and shall be
furnished and carried on so far as possible as a family home under the
management of a superintendent or matron, appointed from a list of
eligibles submitted by the State Board, and such other employees for such
home as the State Board may * deem necessary; provided, however, that
the State Board shall have no authority to require a larger number of
positions or a higher salary scale than that on which the local government
1s willing to base their share of the cost.