CHAPTER 76

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-775.7 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to registration of applicants as Registered Social Workers. rH 76}
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Approved February 28, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 54-775.7 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 54-775.7. What persons to be registered and certified.—Any person
who, * on or before January one, nineteen hundred sixty-nine, submits his
application to the Board on the prescribed form, pays the necessary fee
and furnishes evidence satisfactory to the Board that he is twenty-one
years of age, is of good moral character, is a resident of this State, is
employed as a social worker or was so employed for two years out of the
preceding five years, shall be registered by the Board and certified as a
registered social worker. Any person who, on July one, nineteen hundred
sixty-six, was registered with the Virginia Board for Voluntary Regis-
tration of Social Workers, and submits his application to the Board on the
prescribed form and pays the necessary fee, shall, upon proper applica-
tion, be registered by the Board and certified as a registered social worker
without meeting the foregoing requirements of this section. Any person
in the armed forces of the United States on June twenty-seven, nineteen
hundred sixty-six, who was employed as a social worker prior to entrance
into the armed forces, who makes application for registration within
three months after separation or release from the armed forces and who
otherwise qualifies as set forth in this section, shall be registered by the
Board and certified as a registered social worker.