CHAPTER 422

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
18.1-69.1, 80 as to prohibit the setting of certain deadly weapons with
certain contrivance for certain purposes; providing a penalty.

[H 616]
Approved April 1, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
18.1-69.1, as follows:

§ 18.1-69.1. It shall be unlawful for any person to set or fix in any
manner any firearm or other deadly weapon so that it may be discharged
or activated by a person coming in contact therewith or with any string,
wire, spring, or any other contrivance attached thereto or designed to
activate such weapon remotely. Any person violating this section shall
upon conviction be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more
than three years or in the discretion of the jury or judge sitting without
a jury be confined in jail for a period not exceeding twelve months or fined
five hundred dollars or both.
An Act to amend and reenact § 68-101, as amended, of the Code of Vi
ginia, relating to the definition of certain terms. CH 61

Approved April 1, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 63-101, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended a1
reenacted as follows:

§ 63-101. The following terms, whenever used or referred to in th
law shall have the following meaning, unless a different meaning clear
appears from the context:

(a) “Applicant” means a person who applies for public assistance, |
for whom assistance is applied for, under this law, except that in Chapt
6 of this title it means a person who applies for old age assistance, and
Chapter 8 of this title it means a blind person who applies for aid to tl
blind or for whom aid to the blind is applied for, under this law;

(b) “Aid” in Chapter 7 of this title means aid to dependent childre
“aid” in Chapter 8 of this title means aid to the blind;

(c) “Aid to dependent children” means money payments * on beha
of a dependent child to the relative with whom he is living, or for medic
care (including hospitalization) on behalf of such child or * others includ
in the assistance payment; or money payment to such appropriate pers
as may be determined by the local board if the relative with whom t
child is living by reason of his physical or mental condition has such 1
ability to manage his funds that making an assistance payment to hi
would be contrary to the welfare of the child;

(d) “Aid to the blind” means money payments to blind individus
or for medical care (including hospitalization) on behalf of such person
or others included in the assistance payment; or money payments to su
appropriate person as may be determined by the local board if the recij
ent by reason of his physical or mental condition has such inability to ma
age his funds that making an assistance payment to him would be contra:
to his welfare.

(d1) “Aid to the permanently and totally disabled” means money pa
ments in accordance with § 63-220.1 of the Code of Virginia to a pers
who is disabled, or for medical care (including hospitalization) on behs
of such person or others included in the assistance payment; or money pa
ment to such appropriate person as may be determined by the local boa
if the recipient by reason of his physical or mental condition has such 1
ability to manage his funds that making an assistance payment to hi
would be contrary to his welfare;

(e) “Assistance” means old age assistance;

(f) “Blind person’ means an individual who has, with correctil
glasses, twenty/two hundredths vision or less in the better eye;

zg) “Commission” means the Virginia Commission for the Visual
Handicapped:
P (h) “Commissioner” means the State Commissioner of Public Wi
are;

(1) “Dependent child” means a child under the age of sixteen or,
regularly attending school, under the age of eighteen, who has been 4d
prived of parental support or care by reason of the death, continued a
sence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent, and wl
is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, siste
stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, or aunt in a pla
of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as his or the

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(j) “Federal Social Security Board” means the Social Security Board
created under Title VII of the federal Social Security Act, enacted by the
Congress of the United States and approved August fourteenth, nineteen
hundred thirty-five, and any department or agency which may hereafter
be designated or created as the successor of such Board;

(k) ‘General relief”? means money payments and other forms of re-
lief provided for in Chapter 9 of this title;

(1) “Local board” means the local board of public welfare in each
county and each city of the second class, and the officer in charge of the
department or division of public welfare in a city of the first class, as pro-
vided in §§ 63-50 to 63-60;

(m) “Local superintendent” means the local superintendent of public
welfare provided for in §§ 63-75 to 63-85;

(n) “Old age assistance’ means * money payments to a needy *
person sixty-five years of age or older, as provided for in Chap. 6
($ 63-115 et seq.) of this title, or for medical care (including hospitaliza-
tion) on behalf of such * person or others included in the assistance pay-
ment; or money payments to such appropriate person as may be determined
by the local board if the recipient by reason of his physical or mental
condition has such inability to manage his funds that making an assistance
payment to him would be contrary to his welfare;

(o) “Person” means an individual;

(p) “Public assistance’ means and includes assistance, old age
assistance, medical assistance for the aged, aid, aid to dependent children,
es 7 the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, and general
relie

(q) “Recipient” means any person who receives public assistance
under this law, except that in Chapter 6 of this title it means any person
who receives old age assistance, and in Chapter 8 of this title it means any
person who receives aid to the blind;

(r) “Secretary” means the * Director of the Virginia Commission
for the Visually Handicapped;

(s) ‘State Board’ means the Board of Welfare and Institutions;

(t) “Merit system plan” means those rules and regulations promul-
gated by the State Board in the development and operation of a system
of personnel administration meeting requirements of the federal Social
Security Board.