CHAPTER 534

An Act to amend and reenact § 32-197, as amended, of the Code of Vtr-
ginia, relating to certain definitions pertaining to the “State H ospital
Survey and Construction Law’”’.

[S 207]
Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 32-197, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 32-197. 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
hundred forty-six, entitled the Hospital Survey and Construction Act, and
all subsequent amendments; and Public Law one hundred sixty-four of the
eighty-eighth Congress, approved October thirty-first, nineteen hundred
sixty-three, entitled the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community
Mental Health Centers Construction Act, as well as any other acts of
Congress providing federal funds for hospital construction. ;

(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, * extended-care, rehabilitation, and diagnostic and/or treat-
ment facilities; facilities for the mentally retarded; and other types of
hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories, out-patient depart-
ments, nurses’ home and training facilities and central service facilities
operated in connection with hospitals, but does not include any * facility
Started primarily domiciliary care (except facilities for the mentally
retarded).
(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,
or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or indi-
vidual.

(7) “Facilities for the Mentally Retarded” means a facility specially
designed for the diagnosis, treatment, education, training or custodtal care
of the mentally retarded, including facilities for training specialists and
sheltered workshops for the mentally retarded, but only tf such workshops
are part of facilities which provide or will provide comprehensive services
for the mentally retarded.