Chap. 151.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 587 as to licenses revoked by
local option elections.

Approved April 14, 1903.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section five
hundred and eighty-seven of the Code of eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 587. If any person sells any wine, spirituous, or malt liquors, or any
mixture thereof, in any county, magisterial district, or corporation,
voting, as hereinbefore provided, against the sale of liquor and the grant-
ing of liquor license therein, he shall be liable to all the penalties im-
posed for the sale of spirituous liquors or ardent spirits without a license.
This act shall be construed to prohibit distillers of alcoholic liquors or
manufacturers of wine or malt liquors from selling and delivering any
such liquors or wines in any county, magisterial district, or corporation
voting as aforesaid against the sale of intoxicating liquors therein: pro-
vided, however, that when any person, who has been duly licensed to sell
wines, spirituous, or malt liquors, and who has paid to the State the
license fee imposed by law, shall be deprived of the privilege of doing
business under such license by any election held under this chapter, he
may apply to the clerk of the circuit court, the corporation or the hust-
ings court of the county, the town, or the city by which the license was
granted for a certificate, which shall set forth the time when said license
was granted, the time when it began, the period for which it was granted,
the time when it was revoked by said election, and the number of months
for which said license would have been in force if the said license had not
heen revoked, the ameunt originally paid for said license, and the pro
rata amount to be refunded to the person to whom said license was
granted. Upon the filing of the foregoing certificate in the office of the
auditor of public accounts, he shall pay the sum so certified to the person
named in said certificate, or to the legal representative of such person.

The provisions of this act shall be construed to apply to any license
revoked by any local-option election held since the first day of January,
nineteen hundred and two.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.