Chap. 328.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4570 of the Code of Virginia,
in relation to working or transacting business on Sunday. [S B 289]

Approved March 25, 1932

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

Section 4570. If a person on a Sunday be found laboring at any
trade or calling, or employ his apprentices or servants in labor or other
business, except in household or other work of necessity or charity, he
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than five dollars for each offense. Every day any
person or servant or apprentice is so employed shall constitute a dis-
tinct offense and the court in which or the justice by whom any judg-
ment of conviction is rendered may require of the person so convicted
a recognizance in a penalty of not less than one hundred or more than
five thousand dollars, with or without security, conditioned that such
person shall be of good behavior, and especially to refrain from a
repetition of such offense, for a period not exceeding twelve months.
This section shall not apply to furnaces, kilns, plants and other busi-
ness of like kind that may be necessary to be conducted on Sunday, nor
to the sale of gasoline, or any motor vehicle fuel, or any motor oil or
oils.