Chap. 234.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 55 of Chapter 94 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of 1934, approved March 7, 1934, and known,
designated and cited as the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, the said section
relating to common nuisances; how persons punished for maintaining, or
aiding and abetting or knowingly associating with others in maintaining same;
bonds. [S B 226]

Approved March 23, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
fifty-five of chapter ninety-four of the Acts of the General Assembly
of nineteen hundred and thirty-four, approved March seventh, nineteen
hundred and thirty-four, and known, designated and cited as the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 55. What Deemed Common Nuisances; How Person
Punished for Maintaining, or For Aiding and Abetting or Knowingly
Associating With Others in Maintaining Same; Bonds.—All houses,
boat-houses, buildings, tents, club, fraternity and lodge rooms, boats,
cars and places of every description including drug stores, where
alcoholic beverages are manufactured, stored, sold, dispensed, given
away or used contrary to law by any scheme, or device whatever, shall
be held, taken and deemed common nuisances. Any person who shall
maintain or who shall aid or abet or knowingly be associated with others
in maintaining such common nuisances, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and, in addition thereto, judgment may be given that such house, build-
ing, tent, boat-house, car or other place, or any room or part thereof,
be closed up, but the court may upon the owner giving bond in the
penalty of not less than five hundred dollars and with security to be
approved by the court, conditioned that the premises shall not be used
for unlawful purposes, or in violation of the provisions of this act
for a period of five years turn the same over to its owner; or proceed-
ings may be had in equity as provided in section fifty-six of this act.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.