CHAPTER 108

An Act to amend and reenact § 63-115, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to eligibility for old age assistance. rH 223)

Approved March 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 63-115, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 63-115. An aged person shall be eligible for assistance if he

(a) Has attained the age of sixty-five years;

(b) Has continuously resided in Virginia for one year immediately
preceding the date of application for such assistance;

(c) Is needy and is in need of public assistance, provided that prop-
erty owned and occupied by an applicant as his residence shall not dis-
qualify such person for assistance;

(d) Is not an inmate of or being maintained by any county, municipal,
state, or national institution at the time of receiving such assistance; such
an inmate may however make application for old age assistance, but such
assistance, if granted shall not begin until after he ceases to be such in-
mate; provided that in the event the Federal Social Security Act or other
appropriate federal statutes are so amended as to permit funds appro-
priated by Congress to be used for assistance to aged persons who are
inmates of public institutions, then being an inmate of any such institu-
tion shall not disqualify any such person for assistance;

(e) Has not made an assignment or transfer of property so as to
render himself eligible for old age assistance under this law at any time
within five years immediately prior to the filing of the application for
such assistance ; ,

(f) Is not a patient in an institution for tuberculosis or mental
diseases. *