Chap. 189.—An ACT to amend 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, by adding thereto a new section numbered
section 49-b, so as among other things, to provide that it shall be a misdemeanor
for an infant to represent himself to be twenty-one years of age or older for
the purpose of purchasing or attempting to purchase alcoholic beverages,
and for any person to purchase alcoholic beverages for another person to
whom alcoholic beverages may not be sold; and providing punishment for
the violation of the provisions of this section. [H B 328]

Approved March 18, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That chap-
ter 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 by adding thereto a new section,
numbered section forty-nine-b, which new section shall read as follows:

Section 49-b. Misrepresentation by infant of age in purchasing or
attempting to purchase alcoholic beverages, or the purchasing of al-
coholic beverages by a person for another person to whom alcoholic
beverages may not be sold, a misdemeanor; punishment.—(a) If any
person under the age of twenty-one years, shall falsely represent his
age to be twenty-one years or older for the purpose of purchasing or
attempting to purchase alcoholic beverages; or

(b) If any person shall purchase alcoholic beverages for another
person and at the time of such purchase shall know or have reason
to believe that the person for whom the alcoholic beverage was pur-
chased, was such a person as is enumerated in section forty-two of
this act, as a person to whom such alcoholic beverages shall not be
sold, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(c) Any person convicted of a violation of any provision of this
section shall be punished as is provided in section sixty-two of this act.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its pas-
sage.