CHAP. 289.—An ACT to regulate the sale of cider other than cider which
is the pure juice of the apple, and mixtures, preparations and liquids
containing alcohol in excess of one per cent. by volume, when sold to
be used as a beverage, and to prescribe penalties.

Approved March 14, 1912.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it
shall be unlawful to sell or offer for sale any cider, except cider
as defined and permitted by section fourteen of an act entitled an
act to define and regulate the sale, distribution, rectifying, manu-
facture and distilling of intoxicating liquors and malt beverages,
and to impose license taxes thereon, and to prohibit the drinking
of ardent spirits on railroad trains, and to repeal sections one
hundred and forty-one and one hundred and forty-two of an act
entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections seventy-five to one
hundred and forty-seven, inclusive, of an act approved April
sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled an act to raise
revenue for the support of the government and free schools, and
to pay the interest on the public debt, and to provide a special tax
for pensions as authorized by section one hundred and eighty-
nine 6f the constitution, approved February nineteen, nineteen
hundred and four, and to prescribe penalties, approved March
fifteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and commonly known as the
“Ryrd liquor law’; or to sell or offer for sale any mixtures,
preparations or liquid, to be drunk as a beverage, which con-
tains alcohol in excess of one per centum by volume, without first
having obtained a license for the sale thereof, which license shall
be procured in the same manner as licenses to sell ardent spirits,
and the same laws and licenses shall apply to the sale of such
ciders, mixtures, preparations or liquids as are applicable to the
sale of ardent spirits under said act. But nothing in this act shall
be construed as permitting the sale of beer or malt beverages,
even though they contain less than one per centum of alcohol,
unless a license for the sale of malt liquors to be procured under
the laws governing the sale thereof.
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
repealed.

There being an emergency, making it necessary that this act
shall go into effect so that the licenses provided herein may be
issued as of the first of May, this is hereby declared an emer-
gency act, and shall be in effect from its passage; provided, how-
ever, that nothing herein contained shall affect the validity or
duration of licenses heretofore granted.