Chap. 98.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 7 of chapter 8 of an
act entitled an act to provide a charter for the city of Petersburg,
approved March 11, 1875, as amended by an act approved March 17,

1910. 3.)
Approved March 1, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section seven of chapter three of an act entitled an act to pro-
vide a charter for the city of Petersburg, approved March elev-
enth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as amended by an act
approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 7. Where, by the provisions of this act the council
have authority to pass ordinances or regulations on any sub-
ject, they may prescribe any penalty, not exceeding five hun-
dred dollars (except where penalty is herein otherwise pro-
vided for), for a violation thereof, and may provide that the
offender, on failing to pay the penalty recovered shall be im-
prisoned in the jail of said city for any term not exceeding three
calendar months; which penalty may be prosecuted and re-
covered, with costs, in the name of the city of Petersburg. And
the council may subject the parent or guardian of any minor,
or the master or mistress of any apprentice, to any such penalty
for any offense committed by such minor or apprentice. They
may also provide that any police officer may detect and arrest
any person violating any of such ordinances or regulations, and
bring him to trial, at the next sitting of the police justice or as
soon thereafter as may be, and that, where any person is
arrested for drunkenness or disorderly conduct, and. any in-
toxicating liquor be found upon his person, such intoxicating
liquor shall be taken in custody by the police authorities and
safely kept until the trial; and that upon the conviction of such
person, the police justice may, in addition to the fine imposed
under the ordinances of the city, order that such intoxicating
liquor be destroyed; otherwise to be restored to the owner.