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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64059</law_id><section_number>51.5-145</section_number><catch_line>Responsibility of the Department for adult services</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="51.5">Persons With Disabilities</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="14">Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Adult Services</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall have responsibility for the planning and oversight of <span class="dictionary">adult services</span> in the Commonwealth. Services shall be delivered by <span class="dictionary">local departments</span> of social services, as set out in Article 1 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Home-based services" href="/63.2-1600/">63.2-1600</a> et seq.) of Chapter 16 of Title 63.2, and pursuant to regulations and subject to the oversight of the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>.</p></section></text><history>2012, cc. 803, 835.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
