Chap. 101.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 15 of an act entitled an act
to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the manufacture, use, sale, offering
for sale, transportation, keeping for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits,
or drugs, as herein defined, except as provided herein; declaring certain
ardent spirits contraband, and prescribing procedure for search therefor
and forfeiture thercof; to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits;
to prescribe the jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under
this act; to prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prose-
cutions for violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of
prohibition and to define his duties and powers anf compensation; defining
intoxication and who is a person of intempcrate habits within the mean-
ing of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescribing certain
rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act; defining soft drinks,
providing how they may be sold, regulating the sale of toilet, antiseptic
preparations, patent and proprietary medicines, and flavoring extracts;
exempting certain counties and cities from certain provisions of this act
and authorizing additional restrictions and limitations beyond the pro-
visions of this act as to sale, manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in
certain counties and cities; to provide tor the enforcement of this act and
to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of
the treasury of the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this
act; and to repeal chapter 146 of acts of assembly, 1916, approved March
10, 1916, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, approved
March 19, 1918. [S B 215]

Approved February 25, 1920.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
hfteen of an act entitled an act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit
the manufacture, use, sale, offering for sale, transportation, keeping
for sale, and giving away of ardent spirits, or drugs, as herein defined,
except as provided herein; declaring certain ardent spirits contraband,
and prescribing procedure for search therefor and forfeiture thereof:
to prohibit advertisement of such ardent spirits; to prescribe the
jurisdiction for trial and appeals of cases arising under this act; to
prescribe the force and effect of certain evidence and prosecutions for
violation of this act; to create the office of commissioner of prohibi-
tion and to define his duties and powers and compensation; defining
intoxication and who is a person of intemperate habits within the
meaning of this act; prescribing a penalty for intoxication; prescrib-
ing certain rules of evidence in certain prosecutions under this act;
defining soft drinks, providing how they may be sold, regulating the
sale of toilet, antiseptic preparations, patent and proprietary medi-
cines, and flavoring extracts; exempting certain counties and cities
from certain provisions of this act and authorizing additional re-
strictions and limitations beyond the provisions of this act as to sale,
manufacture or delivery of ardent spirits in certain counties and cities;
to provide for the enforcement of this act and to prescribe penalties
for the violation of this act; to appropriate out of the treasury of
the State necessary moneys for the enforcement of this act; and to
repeal chapter one hundred and forty-six of acts of assembly, nineteen
hundred and sixteen, approved March tenth, nineteen hundred and
sixteen, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict with -this act,
approved March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Sec. 15. Shipment of ardent spirits to pharmacists; records to
be kept by transportation company.—Nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to prevent a duly licensed pharmacist under this, from having
shipped to him, or to prevent any transportation company from deliv-
ering to him under a permit from the commissioner, pure fruit, ethy]
and grain alcohol, wine or other ardent spirits, in such quantities
and at such times as said pharmacist licensed under this act may deem
necessary. But before any shipment is delivered, the consignee shal!
sign a record, to be made and kept by the transportation company,
which shall state the name of the shipper, the kind and quantity of the
ardent spirits shipped, the date’ of shipment and of delivery, and the
consignee shall make affidavit before same person authorized to ad-
minister an oath that the pure fruit, ethyl and grain alcohol, wine or
other ardent spirits included in the shipment are to be sold, dispensed
or used according to the provisions of this act. Any registered phar-
macist licensed under this act, failing to comply with any of the pro-
visions of this section, or who shall make a false affidavit, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor. Provided the provisions of this act shall not
be construed to require a permit for the transportation or the keep-
ing records by a transportation company of any of the articles per-
nutted to be manufactured and sold under section eight of this act

And provided, further, that the dispensary of Norfolk city now
operated under the direction of the health department of said Norfolk
city be, and the same is hereby, given all the rights and privileges of
pharmacists and hereby authorized to sell ardent spirits for medicinal
purposes only subject to all the provisions, conditions and limitations
of this act.

This act shall not apply to Bedford county.

Owing to health conditions now existing in the State an emergency
is hereby declared to exist and this act shall be in force from its
passage.