CHAPTER 130

An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-269 of the Code of Virginia, as
amended, to exclude officers and guards of the penitentiary or other
institutions or camps of the State corrections system from the pro-
hibition against carrying concealed weapons. rH 214]

Approved March 2, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.1-269 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 18.1-269. If any person carry about his person, hid from common
observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, switchblade knife, razor, slung-
shot, metal knucks, or any weapon of like kind, he shall upon conviction
thereof be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than five hundred
dollars and, in the discretion of the jury or the court trying the case with-
out a jury, may, in addition thereto, be committed to jail for not more
than twelve months, and such pistol, dirk, bowie knife, switchblade knife,
razor, slungshot, metal knucks, or weapon of like kind, shall, by order of
the court be forfeited to the Commonwealth and may be seized by an
officer as forfeited, and such as may be needed for police officers and con-
servators of the peace shall be devoted to that purpose, and the remainder
shall be destroyed by the officer having them in charge.

This section shall not apply to any police officers, sergeants, sheriffs,
officers or guards of the penitentiary or other institutions or camps of the
State corrections system, conservators of the peace other than notaries
public, or to carriers of United States mail in the rural districts, or to any
~ollecting officer while in the discharge of his official duty. ,

Any circuit or corporation court, upon a written application and sat-
isfactory proof of the good character and necessity of the applicant to
carry concealed weapons, may grant permission so to do for one year. The
order granting such permission shall be entered in the law order book of
such court.