CHAPTER 416

An Act to amend and reenact § 19-29, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to when search warrants may issue in er eain ete)

Approved March 15, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19-29, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 19-29. On like complaint, on oath, according to the nature of the
case, supported by the affidavit required by § 19-30, such justice or judge
to whom it is made, if satisfied that there is reasonable cause therefor,
shall issue a warrant to search specified places for the following things:

(1) Counterfeit or spurious coin, forged bank notes, and other in-
struments or writings, or any tools, machines or materials for making

em ;

(2) Any book or other thing containing obscene language, or any
print, picture, figure, or description manifestly tending to corrupt the
morals of youth, and intended to be sold, loaned, circulated, or distributed,
or to be introduced into a family, school or place of education;
(3) Lottery tickets, or materials unlawfully made, provided or pro-
cured for drawing a lottery; .

4 gaming apparatus or implements used, or kept and provided
to be used, in unlawful gaming or in any place resorted to for unlawful
gaming; ;

(5) Weapons or other objects used in the commission of a crime;

(6) Any cannabis, coca leaves, heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine,
or laudanum, or any compound, manufacture, mixture, salt, derivative
or preparation thereof, or any synthetic substitute for cannabis, coca
leaves, heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine, or laudanum, or any compound,
manufacture, mixture, salt derivative or preparation thereof, used or pos-
sessed in violation of § 18-305.1 or §§ 54-487 to 54-519, inclusive, of the
Code of Virginia;

(7) Fire works or fire crackers on the premises of a merchant or
vendor where a business is conducted and where possession or sale of
same is unlawful by local ordinance.