                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXAMINATION AND PLACING OF SUCH CHILDREN (§ 66-18)

The Department shall make a careful physical and mental examination of every
child committed to it by the courts, investigate the personal and family history
of the child and his environment, and place such children at such facilities as
are available. Any children committed to the Department and afterwards found to
be eligible for commitment by proper proceedings to any state hospital or
admission to a training center for individuals with intellectual disability
shall take precedence as to admission over all others and shall in all cases be
received into the state hospital or training center within 45 days.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 53-328, 63-292, 63.1-243; 1956, c. 127; 1968, c. 578;
1974, cc. 44, 45; 1981, c. 487; 1982, c. 636, § 53.1-243; 1989, c. 733; 2012,
cc. 476, 507.