Chap. 324.—An ACT to require persons sixteen years of age, or over, of suf-
ficient earning capacity or income, to support their parents who are in
destitute or necessitous circumstances; and to repeal an act entitled an act
to require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their
parents in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more, Pres

March 19, 1920.
Approved March 20, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, as follows:
Sec. 1. In all cities of the first class it shall be the duty of all
persons sixteen years of age, or over, of sufficient earning capacity
or income to provide or assist in providing for the support and main-
tenance of his or her mother or aged or infirm father, he or she being
then and there in destitute or necessitous circumstances.

Sec. 2. In cities where such coufts have been or shall be estab-
lished, the juvenile and domestic relations court shall have exclusive
original jurisdiction in all cases arising under this act. And in all
other cities of the first class the police justice or the civil and police
justice, as the case may be, shall have concurrent original jurisdiction
with the corporation or hustings court of such cities in all cases aris-
ing under this act. The person accused shall have the same right of
appeal as provided by law in other cases.

Sec. 3. All proceedings under this act shall conform as nearly as
possible to the proceedings under chapter cighty of the Code of
Virginia, and the provisions of that chapter shall apply to cases
arising under this act ‘in like manner as though they were incorpo-
rated herein. Prosecutions under this act shall be in the jurisdiction
where the defendant resides.

Sec. 4. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment in jail
for a period not exceeding twelve months, or both.

2. An act entitled an act to require able-bodied persons over six-
teen years of age tg, support their parents in cities of one hundred
thousand inhabitants or more, approved March nineteenth, nineteen
hundred and twenty, is hereby repealed. Provided that this act shall
not apply to any known persons who contributes to the support of
their family.