Chap. 459.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to
make the unauthorized use of automobiles or motor vehicles a mis-
demeanor, approved March 14, 1912, and providing punishment there-
for. (H. B. 123.)

Approved March 22, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
an act to make the unauthorized use of automobiles, or motor
vehicles a misdemeanor, approved March fourteenth, nineteen
hundred and twelve, be, and the same is hereby amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: Any chauffeur or other person
who, without the consent of the owner shall take, or cause to
be taken, from a garage, stable or other building or place, an
2utomobile or motor vehicle, and operate or drive, or cause the
same to be operated or driven for his own private use or pur-
pose, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars
or confined in the city or county jail for a period of not less
than sixty days, or both.