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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76049</law_id><section_number>63.2-207</section_number><catch_line>Authority to receive grants-in-aid, funds and gifts</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="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">General Provisions Relating to Social Services</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">State Social Services</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Department and Commissioner of Social Services</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> is authorized to receive, for and on behalf of the Commonwealth and its subdivisions, from the United States and agencies thereof, and from any and all other sources, grants-in-aid, funds and gifts, made for the purpose of providing, or to assist in providing, for funds for <span class="dictionary">child</span> welfare services including day care for children, disaster relief and emergency assistance awards, <span class="dictionary">Temporary Assistance for Needy Families</span>, and <span class="dictionary">general relief</span>, or any of them, including expenses of administration. Subject to the written approval of the Governor, the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> is also authorized to receive from all such sources grants-in-aid, funds and gifts made for the purpose of alleviating, treating or preventing poverty, delinquency or other social problems encountered in programs under the supervision or administration of the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. All such funds shall be paid into the state treasury.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 63-44; 1962, c. 297; 1964, c. 88; 1966, c. 105; 1968, c. 578, &#xA7; 63.1-36; 1977, c. 37; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
