CHAPTER 357

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-108, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to sentencing certain persons to serve on the State
convict road force. 8 4]

Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 53-108, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 53-103. Whenever a male person * eighteen years of age or older
is convicted of any misdemeanor or felony for which a jail sentence might
be imposed, either for a fixed period of time, or a sentence to serve in
default of payment of fine or in default of surety, the judge * trying the
case may, in his discretion, in lieu of committing him to jail, sentence him
to a like period on the public roads, and cause him to be delivered into the
custody of the Director, to be kept by him as a member of the State convict
road force, in accordance with law, and subject to work on the public roads.