Chap. 144.-An ACT to make it unlawful for any person to drive or operate any
automobile or other motor vehicle, engine or train while under the influence
of alcohol, brandy, rum, whiskey, gin, wine, beer, lager beer, ale, porter, stout,
or any other liquid, beverage or article containing alcohol, or under the in-
fluence of any narcotic drug, or any other self-administered intoxicant or drug
of whatsoever nature; to prescribe penalties for violations thereof, and to
require convictions thereunder to be reported to the Director of the Division
of Motor Vehicles. [S B 171]

Approved March 22, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or operate
any automobile or other motor vehicle, car, truck, engine, or train, while
under the influence of alcohol, brandy, rum, whiskey, gin, wine, beer,
lager beer, ale, porter, stout, or any other liquid, beverage or article
containing alcohol or while under the influence of any narcotic drug,
or any other self-administered intoxicant or drug of whatsoever nature.
Section 2. Any person who violates any provision of this act shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one
hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisonment
for not less than one month nor more than six months, either or both
in the discretion of the court or jury trying the same, for a first offense,
and the court may, in its discretion, suspend the sentence during the
good behavior of the person convicted. Any person convicted of a
second, or other subsequent offense under this act shall be punishable by
a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand
dollars and by imprisonment for not less than one month nor more than
one year, and no court shall suspend the sentence in any such case.
Section 3. The judgment of conviction, if for a first offense under
this act, or for a similar offense under any city or town ordinance, shall
of itself operate to deprive the person convicted, of the right to drive
or operate any such vehicle, conveyance, engine or train in this State
for a period of one year from the date, of such judgment, and if for a
second or other subsequent offense, for a period of three years from
the date of the judgment of conviction thereof. If any person has here-
tofore been convicted of violating any similar act of this State and
thereafter is convicted of violating the provisions of section one of
this act, such conviction shall for the purpose of this act be a subsequent
offense and shall be punished accordingly. If any person so convicted
shall, during the time for which he is deprived of his right so to do,
drive or operate any such vehicle, conveyance, engine or train in this
State, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; but nothing in this act
shall be construed as conflicting with or repealing any ordinance or
resolution of any city, town or county, heretofore or hereafter adopted,
which restricts still further the right of such persons to drive or operate
any such vehicle or conveyance.

Section 4. The clerks of all courts of record and every justice of the
peace, including police, trial and juvenile justice, shall, within thirty
days after final conviction of any person in his court under this act,
report the fact thereof and the name, postoffice address and street ad-
dress of such person, together with the license plate number on the
vehicle operated by such person, to the Director of the Division of Motor
Vehicles, who shall preserve a record thereof in his office.

This act shall be in force on and after the twenty-second day of
March, nineteen hundred and thirty-four.