CHAPTER 605

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 22-228 as amended, and 22-228 of the
Code of Virginia, relating to census of school population and of
certain deaf and blind persons. H 556

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Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 22-228 as amended, and 22-228 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 22-223. Ata time to be designated by the Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction, prior to September first, nineteen hundred * sixty-eight
and every * three years thereafter, a census of all persons between the ages
of seven and twenty years, residing within each county or city, shall be
taken on forms furnished by the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Persons of school age domiciled in orphanages or eleemosynary institutions
or living on any federal military or naval reservation or other federal
property, shall be included in the census for the county or city within
which the institution or federal military or naval reservation or other
federal property is located. Persons of school age confined in insane asy-
lums, State or federal industrial schools or prisons, shall be included in
the census for the county or city that is the legal residence of the parents
or guardians of such child or children. :

§ 22-228. At the time the * census provided for by 8 22-228 is
taken, there shall also be taken, by the same agents, a separate census
of the deaf and blind persons between the ages set out in such section.
residing within the county or city, giving the sex, age and residence of
each and a copy thereof, shall be returned to the division superintendent.
For this service the agents shall receive the same compensation as that
allowed for listing other children in § 22-224, and out of the same fund.
The division superintendent shall consolidate the reports of the county
ne pense the same to the superintendent of the schools for the deaf
and blind. ;
2. Anemergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.