CHAPTER 206

An Act to provide for the gradual revision of the Code of Virginia under
the direction of the Virginia Code Commission; to provide for a study
and revision of Title 87 of the Code of Virginia. [H 81]

Approved March 31, 1966

Whereas, the Commission on Mental Hygiene, in its report to the
Governor and General Assembly dated October 29, 1963, indicated that an
overall revision of Title 37 of the Code of Virginia is needed in order for
the State to have a simple, complete and modern body of law in the field
of mental hygiene; now, therefore, .

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The Code of Virginia shall be gradually revised by revising one
title at a time. In revising each title, all other sections of the Code relating
to the same subject matter shall be revised to the extent necessary. Experts
shall be employed by the Virginia Code Commission to assist in the project.
The Commission may also accept the services of qualified volunteers who
are willing to serve without pay. Tentative drafts of proposed revisions
shall be printed and circulated among interested persons and their com-
ments solicited. |

§ 2. The Commission shall undertake the revision of Title 37, and
submit to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before October
one, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, a report of its recommendations,
together with suggested legislation necessary to carry such recommenda-
tions into effect.

§ 3. The Commission is authorized to expend funds made available
to it by this act for the purpose of paying the expenses of members of the

ission, and the expenses of members of committees selected by it,
when engaged in the performance of duties imposed by this act, as well as
the salaries and expenses of persons employed by the Commission to work
on the revision of the title of the Code herein mentioned, and other
expenses of the Commission properly chargeable to this project.