Chap. 129.-An ACT to authorize the governing bodies of counties, cities
and towns to adopt ordinances prohibiting or regulating the sale of wine
and beer or either of them between certain hours of certain days; to
provide for the issuance of retail beer and wine licenses in accordance
with the provisions of, and the suspension or revocation of such licenses
of persons convicted of violations of, such ordinances. [S B 108]

Approved March 12, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
board of supervisors or other governing body of each county shall
have authority to adopt ordinances effective in that portion of such
county not embraced within the corporate limits of any city or in-
corporated town, and the council or other governing body of each city
and town shall have authority to adopt ordinances effective in such
city or town, prohibiting the sale of beer and wine, or either beer or
wine, between the hours of twelve o’clock post meridian of each
Saturday and six o’clock ante meridian of each Monday, or fixing
hours within said period during which wine and beer, or either, may
be sold, and prescribing fines and other penalties for violations of
such ordinances which shall be enforced by proceedings in like man-
ner and with like right of appeal as if such violations were misde-
meanors. Provided, however, that such ordinances shall not affect
the sale of beer and wine on passenger trains or steam vessels while
operating in interstate commerce.

Upon the adoption of any such ordinance a copy thereof, duly
certified by the clerk of the governing body adopting the same shall
be transmitted to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board,
and thereafter every retail license issued by said board for the sale
of beer and wine or either of them in the county, city or town in
which such ordinance was adopted, shall be limited in accordance
with the provisions of such ordinance. Upon receipt of the record
of the conviction of any licensee of the board for the violation of any
such ordinance, the board may, in its discretion, suspend or revoke
such license.

It is further provided, however, that no provision herein contained,
nor any ordinance that may be passed in pursuance thereof, shall be
construed as in any way altering, amending or repealing section forty-
five hundred and seventy of the Code of Virginia.