CHAPTER 53

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 4-51 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages to certain persons, 80
as to further define persons to whom such sales may be prohibited
under specified circumstances. [H 97]

Approved February 16, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
ia That § 4-51 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 4-51. (a) Entry of order of interdiction—When after hearing
upon due notice it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the circuit
court of any county or the corporation court of any city, or the judge
thereof in vacation, that any person, residing or sojourning * within such
county or city, has on or after March twenty-first, nineteen hundred
thirty-four, been convicted of driving or running any automobile, car,
truck, motorcycle, engine or train while intoxicated or has shown himself
to be * an habitual drunkard, the court, or the judge thereof in vacation,
may make an order of interdiction prohibiting the sale of alcoholic bever-
ages to such person until further ordered. The court or judge entering
any och paden shall cause a copy of the same to be forthwith filed with

e Board.

(b) Publication of order.—Upon such order of interdiction being
filed with the Board, it shall cause a copy thereof to be published at least
once in a newspaper having a general circulation in the county or city in
which the court which issued the order is held, and in such other news-
paper as the Board may direct. It shall thereafter as long as such order
shall remain in effect be unlawful, as provided in § 4-62, for anyone to
sell alcoholic beverages to such interdicted person except in accordance
with the provisions of §§ 4-48, 4-49 and 4-50.

(c) Amendment or cancellation of order.—The court or judge enter-
ing any order of interdiction may thereafter at any time alter, amend or
cancel the same as in its judgment it shall deem proper. A copy of each
such alteration, amendment and cancellation shall be filed with the Board
and published as hereinbefore provided as to orders of interdiction.

(d) Private hearing.——Any hearing or investigation under this sec-
tion by any court or judge may be held in private if the court or judge or
person accused shall so direct.