Chap. 302.—An ACT prohibiting expectorating or spitting in public places,
buildings, theatres, steamboats, railways, and street cars, and other public
conveyances, and requiring a sufficient number of spittoons or cuspidors
to be provided in smoking compartments and smoking cars when so re-
quested, and also requiring the posting of copies of this act.

Approved March 17, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That no person
shall spit, expectorate, or deposit any sputum, saliva, mucus, or any form
of saliva or sputum upon the floor, stairways, or upon any part of any
theatre, public hall, or building, or upon the floor or any part of any
railroad car or street car or steamboat, or upon the floor or any part of
any car of interurban or suburban railway, or of any other public con-
veyance in the State of Virginia, or upon any sidewalk abutting on any
public street, alley or lane of any town or city in the State of Virginia ;
and it is hereby made the duty of the owner or lessee of every theatre,
public hall, or building in the State of Virginia to provide every such
theatre, public hal], or building with a sufficient number of spittoons or
cuspidors.

2. It is further provided, That every railroad or steamboat company
shall provide in each smoking compartment or smoking car, when so re-
quested, as many cuspidors or spittoons as may be necessary for the con-
venience of passengers.

3. Any person violating any provision of this law shall, upon convic-
tion, be fined in a sum not less than one nor more than five dollars, to-
gether with the costs of the prosecution, and in default of payment, be
imprisoned in the city or county jail for not more than five days.

4. It is further provided that printed copies of this act shall be posted
conspicuously in all public places, buildings, theatres, railway, and street
cars.