Chap. 284.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Chapter 324 of the Acts of 1922, as
heretofore amended, entitled an act to require persons sixteen years of age or

over, of sufficient earning capacity or income, to support their parents, who are
in destitute or necessitous circumstances, and to repeal an act entitled an act to
require able-bodied persons over sixteen years of age to support their parents in
cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more, approved March 20, 1922.

[S B 264]
Approved March 20, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That chap-
ter three hundred and twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and
twenty-two, approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-
two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. It shall be the duty of all persons sixteen years of age
or over, of sufficient earning capacity or income, after reasonably pro-
viding for his own immediate family, to provide or assist in nravidine
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for the support and maintenance of his or her mother or aged or infirm
father, he or she being then and there in destitute or necessitous circum-
stances.

Section 2. Where such courts have been or shall be established,
the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court shall have exclusive original
jurisdiction in all cases arising under this act. Where no such courts have
been established, jurisdiction for the enforcement of this act shall be
vested in the corporation or hustings court in cities and in the circuit
courts of the counties. The person accused, or whose estate is to be
subjected, shall have the same right of appeal as is provided by law in
other cases.

Section 3. All proceedings under this act shall conform as nearly as
possible to the proceedings under chapter eighty of the Code of Virginia,
and the provisions of that chapter shall apply to cases arising under this
act in like manner as though they were incorporated herein. Prosecutions
under this act shall be in the jurisdiction where the defendant resides.

Section 4. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisoned in jail for a period
not exceeding twelve months, or both.

5. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its: pas-
sage.