Chap. 136.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2808 of the Code of Virginia,
designating persons who shall be deemed vagrants. [S B 117]

Approved March 11, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-eight hundred and eight of the Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2808. Who are Vagrants.—The following persons shall be
deemed vagrants:

First. All persons who shall unlawfully return into any county or
corporation whence they have been legally removed.
Second. All persons who, not having wherewith to maintain them-
selves and their families, live idly and without employment, and refuse
to work for the usual and common wages given to other laborers in
the like work in the place where they then are.

Third. Persons wandering or strolling about in idleness who are
able to work and have no property to support them.

Fourth. Persons leading an idle, immoral, or profligate life, who
have no property to support them, and who are able to work, and do
not.

Fifth. All able-bodies persons found begging for a living, or who
quit their houses and leave their wives or children without the means
of subsistence.

Sixth. All persons who shall come from any place without this
Commonwealth to any place within it and shall be found loitering and
residing therein, and shall follow no labor, trade, occupation or busi-
ness, and have no visible means of subsistence, and can give no rea-
sonable account of themselves or their business in such place.

Seventh. All persons having a fixed abode who have no visible
property to support them, and who live by stealing or by trading or
bartering stolen property.

Eighth. All persons who are able to work and who do not work,
but hire out their minor children and live upon their wages.

Ninth. All persons who have no visible income lawfully acquired
and who consort with idlers, gamblers, bootleggers, prostitutes, nar-
cotic users, narcotic vendors, persons engaged in the operation of any
disorderly house, or illegal enterprise of any kind, or persons having the
reputation of any of the above named.