                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PRIVATE FUNDS PROVIDED FOR INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING SERVICES (§ 37.2-705)

A. The Commissioner is hereby authorized to provide for the deposit with the
director or other proper officer of any state facility of any money given or
provided for the purpose of supplying extra comforts, conveniences, or services
to any individual in a state facility and any money otherwise received and held
from, for, or on behalf of any individual in a state facility.

B. All funds so provided or received shall be deposited to the credit of the
state facility in a special fund in a bank or banks designated by the
Commissioner and shall be disbursed as may be required by the respective donors
or, in the absence of such requirement, as directed by the director.

C. The director of each state facility shall furnish to the Commissioner
annually a statement showing the amounts of funds received and deposited, the
amounts expended, and the amounts remaining in such special funds at the end of
the year. The Commissioner shall have authority to invest so much of the
remaining funds as he may deem proper in United States government bonds or other
securities authorized by law for the investment of fiduciary funds. The interest
from these investments may be expended as a part of a welfare fund at each state
facility.

D. If any individual receiving services for whose benefit any such fund has been
or shall be provided has departed or shall depart from any state facility,
leaving any unexpended balance in such fund, and the director, in the exercise
of reasonable diligence, has been or shall be unable to find the person or
persons entitled to such unexpended balance, the Commissioner may, after the
lapse of three years from the date of such departure, authorize the use of the
balance for the benefit of all or any of the individuals then in the state
facility.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 37-47 to 37-50; 1950, p. 902; 1968, c. 477, §§
37.1-29 to 37.1-32; 1972, c. 639; 1976, c. 671; 1980, c. 582; 2005, c. 716;
2012, cc. 476, 507.