CHAPTER 411

An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-241 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the carrying of certain weapons to a place of worship and the
penalty therefor.

[H 40]

Approved March 31, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.1-241 of the Code of Virginia, be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 18.1-241. If any person carry any gun, pistol, bowie knife, dagger
or other dangerous weapon, without good and sufficient reason, to a place
of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held at such
place * he shall be fined not less than twenty dollars. If any offense under
this section be committed at a place of religious worship, the offender
may be arrested on the order of a conservator of the peace, without war-
rant, and held until a warrant can be obtained, but not exceeding three
hours. Every justice of the peace, upon his own knowledge or upon the
affidavit of any person that an offense under this section has been com-
mitted shall issue a warrant for the arrest of the offender.