CHAPTER 161

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 82-197 and 82-200 of the Code of Vir-
ginia relating to the “State Hospital Survey and Construction Law.”

(S 37]
Approved March 4, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 32-197 and 32-200 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted to read as follows:

§ 32-197. Definitions—As used in this chapter:

(1) “Commissioner” means the State Health Commissioner of the
State Department of Health.

(2) “The Federal Act’’ means Public Law seven hundred twenty-five
of the seventy-ninth Congress, approved August thirteenth, nineteen hun-
dred forty-six, entitled the Hospital Survey and Construction Act, as well
as any other acts of Congress providing federal funds for hospital con-
struction.

(3) “The Surgeon General” means the Surgeon General of the Public
Health Service of the United States.

(4) “Hospital” includes public health centers and general, tubercu-
losis, mental, chronic disease, and other types of hospitals, and related
facilities, such as laboratories, out-patient departments, nurses’ home and
training facilities, and central service facilities operated in connection with
hospitals, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary
care.

(5) “Public health center” means a publicly owned facility for the
provision of public health services, including related facilities such as
laboratories, clinics, and administrative offices operated in connection with
public health centers.

(6) “Nonprofit hospital’? means any hospital owned and operated by
a corporation or association, no part of the net earnings of which inures,
cP lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or indi-
vidual.

§ 32-200. Advisory Hospital Council—The Governor shall appoint
an Advisory Hospital Council to advise and consult with the Department
of Health in carrying out the administration of this chapter. The Council
shall consist of the Commissioner who shall serve as chairman ex officio
and not more than twenty-two members and shall include representatives
of nongovernment organizations or groups, and of State agencies, concerned
with the operation, construction or utilization of hospitals, including repre-
sentatives of the consumers of hospital services selected from among per-
sons familiar with the need for such services in urban or rural areas. Each
member shall hold office for a term of four years, except that any member
appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term
for which his predecessor was appointed, shall be appointed for the re-
mainder of such term and the terms of office of the members first taking
office shall expire, as designated at the time of appointment, one-fourth
of them at the end of the first year, one-fourth at the end of the second
year, one-fourth at the end of the third year, one-fourth at the end of the
fourth year, after the date of appointment. No member other than the
chairman shall be eligible to serve for or during more than two successive
terms. * An appointment to fill a vacancy shall not constitute a term here-
under. Council members, while serving on business of the Council, shall
be entitled to receive actual and necessary travel and subsistence ex-
penses while so serving away from their places of residence. The Council
shall meet as frequently as the Commissioner deems necessary, but not
less than once each year. Upon request by a majority of the members,
it shall be the duty of the Commissioner to call a meeting of the Council.
2. An emergency exists and this Act is in force from its passage.