ID# 1238:
Virginia Sterilization Act of 3/20/1924
Date:
1924
Pages: (1|2|3|4)
Source:
Cold Spring Harbor, ,

Virginia Sterilization Act of 3/20/1924

Image 1238 1924.]&ACTS OF ASSEMBLY.&571 some competent physician to be named in such order upon the said inmate, after not less than thirty days from the date of such order, the operation of vasectomy if a male or of salpingectomy if a female; provided that nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the operation of castration nor the removal of sound organs of the body. 3. From any order so entered by the said special board the said superintendent or the said inmate or his committee or guardian or parent or next friend shall within thirty days after the date of such order have an appeal of right to the circuit court of the county or city in which the said institution is situated, which appeal may be taken by giving notice thereof in writing to any member of the said special board and to the other parties to the said proceeding, whereupon the said superintendent shall forthwith cause a copy of the petition, notice, evidence and orders of the special board certified by the chairman or in his absence by any member thereof, to the clerk of the said circuit court, who shall file the same and docket the appeal to be heard and determined by the said court as soon thereafter as may be practicable. The said circuit court in determining such appeal may consider the record of the proceeding before the said special board, including the evidence therein appearing together with such other legal evidence as the said court may consider pertinent and proper that may be offered to the said court by any party to the appeal. Upon such appeal the said circuit may affirm, revise or reverse the orders of the said special board appealed from and may enter such order as it deems just and right and which it shall certify to the said special board of directors. The pendency of such appeal shall stay proceedings under the order of the special board until the appeal be determined. 4. Any party to such appeal in the circuit court may within ninety days after the date of the final order therein, apply for an appeal to the supreme court of appeals, which may grant or refuse such appeal and shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the some upon the record of trial in the circuit court and to enter such an order as it may find that the ciruit should have entered.' The pendency of an appeal in the supreme court of appeals shall operate as a stay of proceedings under any orders of the special boardor of the circuit court until the appeal be determined by the said supreme court of appeals. 5. Neither any of said superintendents nor any other person legally participating in the execution of the provisions of this act shall be liable either civilly or criminally on account of said participation. 6. Nothing in this act shall be construed so as to prevent the medical or surgical treatment for sound therapeutic reasons of any person in this State, by a physician or surgeon licensed by this State, which treatment may incidentally involve the nullification or destruction of the reproductive functions. [end]

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