Chap. 235.—An ACT to amend and re-enact chapter 324 of the acts of 1922,
entitled an act to require persons sixteen years of age or over, of sufficient
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, approved March 19, 1920,
approved March 20, 1922. | [S B 367]

' Approved March 16, 1928

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That chap-
ter three hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred
and twenty-two, approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and
twenty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. 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 maintenance of his or her
mother or aged or infirm father, he or she being then and there in
destitute or necessitous circumstances.

Section 2. Where such courts have been or shall be established,
the juvenile and domestic relations court shall have exclusive ori-
ginal jurisdiction in all cases arising under this act. Where no such
courts have been established, jurisdiction for the enforcement of
this act shall be vested in the corporation or hustings courts in
cities and in the circuit courts of the counties. The person accused,
or whose estate is to be subjected, shall have the same right of
appeal as is provided by law in other cases.

- Section 3. All proceedings under this act shall conform as near-
ly as possible to the proceedings under chapter eighty 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 in-
corporated herein. Prosecutions under this act shall be in the
jurisdiction where the defendant resides.

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

2. An act entitled an act to require able-bodied persons over
sixteen years of age to support their parents in cities of one hun-
dred thousand inhabitants or more, approved March nineteenth.
nineteen hundred and twenty, as amended, is hereby repealed; pro-
vided that this act shall not apply to any known persons who con-
tribute to the support of their family.