CHAPTER 23

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 4-78 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
drinking or offering alcoholic beverages in certain places and provid-
ing penalties for violations. [H. 99]

Approved February 10, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Ys That § 4-78 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted, as
ollows:

§ 4-78. (a) If any person shall take a drink of alcoholic beverages
or shall tender a drink thereof to another, whether accepted or not, at or
in any public place, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less
than one nor more than ten dollars.

(b) This section shall not prevent any person from drinking alcoholic
beverages or offering a drink thereof to another in the dining room or
other designated room, as defined in § 4-25, of a hotel, restaurant, club or
boat, or in a dining car, club car, or buffet car of any train, or in any other
establishment, provided such hotel, restaurant, club, boat, dining car, club
car, * buffet car, or establishment, or the person who operates the same,
is licensed to sell at retail for consumption in such dining room, room, *
car, or establishment, such alcoholic beverages, and the alcoholic beverages
drunk or offered were purchased therein.