Volume 64
Public Law 81–464
To amend the Act approved July 18, 1940 (54 Stat. 766; 24 U. S. C., 1946 edition, sec. 196b), entitled “An Act relating to the admission to Saint Elizabeths Hospital of persons resident or domiciled in the Virgin Islands of the United States”, by enlarging the classes of persons admissible into Saint Elizabeths Hospital and in other respects.
Approved July 18, 1950
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act approved July 18, 1940 (54 Stat. 766; 24 U. S. C., 1946 edition, sec. 196b), entitled “An Act relating to the admission to Saint Elizabeths Hospital of persons resident or domiciled in the Virgin Islands of the United States”, by enlarging the classes of persons admissible into Saint Elizabeths Hospital and in other respects.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act approved July 18, 1940, entitled “An Act relating to the admission to Saint Elizabeths Hospital of persons resident or domiciled in the Virgin Islands of the United States”, is amended as follows:
24 U. S. C. § 196b.
Clauses (1) and (2) of the first paragraph of such Act are amended to read as follows: “(1) Persons who are permanent residents of the Virgin Islands of the United States and who (A) are citizens or nationals of the United States or nondeportable aliens and (B) have been legally adjudged to be insane in the Virgin Islands or while temporarily in another insular possession or a Territory of the United States or in the continental United States; and (2) persons who are present in but not permanent residents of the Virgin Islands and (A) have been legally adjudged to be insane in the Virgin Islands, (B) are citizens or nationals of the United States or nondeportable aliens, and (C) are persons whose legal residence in one of the States or Territories of the United States or the District of Columbia it has been impossible to establish.”
The second paragraph of such Act is amended to read as follows:
“Upon the ascertainment of the legal residence of persons who have been transferred to Saint Elizabeths Hospital and who are not permanent residents of the Virgin Islands, the Superintendent of the hospital shall transfer such persons to their respective places of residence. and the expense of transfer shall be paid from the Appropriation for the support of the hospital.”
Approved July 18, 1950.