CHAPTER 395

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 18 of Title
82 an article numbered 4, containing sections numbered 32-275.1
through 82-275.8, providing for the dissolution of hospital authorities
in cities; and for the disposition and transfer of the assets of such
authority when the need for such authority no longer exists; and
to provide for appeals.

(S 291]

Approved March 30, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding in Chapter 13 of
Title 82 an article numbered 4, containing sections numbered 32-275.1
through 32-275.3, as follows:

ARTICLE 4

§ 32-275.1. Whenever it shall appear to the commissioners of an
authority that the need, as provided in § 32-218, for such authority in the
city in which it was created no longer exists, then upon petition by the
commissioners to a court of record in such city, after giving to the city
ten days notice, and upon the production of satisfactory evidence in support
of such petition, the court may, in its discretion, enter an order declaring
that the need for such authority in the city no longer exists, and approving
a plan for the winding up of the business of the authority, the payment
or assumption of its obligations, and the transfer of its assets.

§ 32-275.2. If the court shall enter an order, as provided in § 32-275.1,
that the need for such authority no longer exists, then, except for the
winding up of its affairs in accordance with the plan approved by the court,
its authorities, powers and duties to transact business or to function shall
cease to exist as of that date set forth in the order of the court.

§ 32-275.3. An appeal may be granted by the Supreme Court of Ap-
peals of Virginia, or any judge thereof, to either the authority or the city
from the judgment of the court and the appeal shall be heard and deter-
mined without reference to the principles of demurrer to evidence. The
trial court shall certify the facts in the case to the Supreme Court of
Appeals and the evidence shall be considered as on appeal in proceedings
under Chapter 1 of Title 25 of the Code of Virginia. In any case, by con-
sent of both parties of record, the petition may be dismissed at any time
before final judgment on appeal.

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