Chap. 85.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 5 and 7 of an act en-
titled “An act to regulate motion picture films and reels; providing a
system of examination, approval and regulation thereof, and of the
banners, posters and other like advertising matter used in connection
therewith; creating the board of censors; and providing penalties for
the violation of this act,” approved March 15, 1922. [H B 44]

Approved March 24, 1923.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections five and seven of an act entitled “An act to regulate
motion picture films and reels; providing a system of examina-
tion, approval and regulation thereof, and of the banners,
posters and other like advertising matter used in connection
therewith; creating the board of censors; and providing penal-
ties for the violation of this act,” approved March fifteenth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 5. (a) The board may, in its discretion, and with
or without inspection, issue permits for duplicate copies of films,
the originals of which have been publicly exhibited in the State
of Virginia prior to August first, nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, and for which permits have been granted by the board
prior to September first, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. The
fee for such permits shall be at the rate of one dollar for each
film of one thousand feet or less, and for each one thousand feet
or less in excess thereof.

_ (b) Current event films——The board may at any time
issue a permit for any film portraying current events and nol
otherwise prohibited by law without inspection thereof.
-, (¢) Scientific films.—The board shall issue a permit for

every motion picture film of a strictly scientific character in-
tended for use by the learned professions, without examination
thereof, provided that the owner thereof, either personally or
by his duly authorized attorney or representative, shall file the
prescribed application which shall include a sworn description
of the film and statement that the film is not to be exhibited at
any private or public place of amusement. Such permits shall
be exempt from the payment of any fee therefor except the
actual cost of the approval seal plus the overhead charges, the
whole not to exceed fifty cents for each permit.

(d) Educational, charitable and religious films.—The board
shall issue a permit for any motion picture film intended solely
for strictly educational, charitable and religious purposes, or by
any employer for the instruction or welfare of his employees,
provided that the owner thereof, either personally or by his duly
authorized attorney or representative, shall file the prescribed
application, which shall include a sworn description of the film
and statement that the film is to be exhibited only for the above
named purposes. The board, in its discretion, may exempt such
films from examination, and also from the payment of any fee,
except the actual cost of the approval seal plus overhead charges,
but the whole of such actual cost end overhead charges shall not
exceed fifty cents for each permit.

Section 7. The board shall collect from each applicant for
a license or permit, except as otherwise.expressly provided in
this act, a fee of two dollars for each one thousand feet or frac-
tion thereof of original film or duplicate thereof, licensed or per-
mitted by the board; but if application be made for one or more
duplicates at the same time as the application for the original
is made, the board shall collect a fee of one dollar for each one
thousand feet or fraction thereof of duplicate film. All such
fees shall be paid by the board into the treasury of the State, to
be kept in a separate fund and paid out on vouchers approved
by the board, which fund shall be expended only to pay the
costs and expenses of said board, including the salaries of the
members thereof at twenty-four hundred dollars per annum
each.

Section 8. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force
‘from its passage.