Chap. 112.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 34 of chapter 407 of the
acts of the general assembly of 1924, concerning ardent spirits. [S B 157]

Approved March 9, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty-four of chapter four hundred and seven of the acts of the general
assembly of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, page five hundred and
ninety-three, approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 34. Enforcement of city and town ordinances in cities and
towns and in territory contiguous to cities and towns.—Nothing in
this act shall be construed as conflicting with the jurisdiction of any
mayor or police justice in the trial of offenses against, and the enforce-
ment of, city and town ordinances, concerning ardent spirits, enacted
under the authority of section thirty-seven of chapter four hundred
and seven of the acts of the general assembly of nineteen hundred and
twenty-four. For the enforcement of such ordinances, the mayor or
police justice shall have jurisdiction over the territory contiguous to
the city or town within three miles of the city or town limits, pro-
vided said three-mile linut does not interfere with the jurisdiction
of the mavor or police justice of any other city or town, and where
there is less than six nules between any city or town, and another
city or town, the jurisdiction of the mayor or police justice of either citv
or town shall extend only to one-half the distance between said cities
and towns.

In any prosecution before a mavor or police justice, the commis-
sioner of prohibition and the attorney for the Commonwealth of the
city or town shall be notified by the said mavor or police justice, in
time to attend said trial, and the said attorney for the Commonwealth
and the commissioner, lis deputies and inspectors, shall have the same
power in respect to such cases that they have in cases before the
circuit Or corporation court.