CHAPTER 605

An Act to amend and reenact § 27-65 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to the definition of “public building’ under Fire Hazards Law.

[H 717]
Approved April 3, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

a That § 27-65 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 27-65. As used in this article, unless a different meaning or con-
struction is clearly required by the context, the term “public building’’
means and includes any building or structure, permanent or temporary,
which is used or occupied or to be used or occupied, by * ten or
more persons who are employed, lodged, housed, assembled, served, enter-
tained or instructed therein, and, without limiting the foregoing, includes
hotels, schools and colleges, hospitals of all kinds, asylums, mercantile
establishments, office buildings, apartment houses, theatres, restaurants,
auditoriums, stadiums, gymnasiums, armories, dance halls, factories, work
shops, lodges, meeting rooms, manufacturing and processing establish-
ments, and all other buildings and structures of same or similar character
or of same or similar use; including buildings owned and occupied by the
State or by any of its political subdivisions.

Provided, however, that in any city having a population according
to the last official census of more than 200,000 people, no building or
structure as aforesaid shall be included in the term “public building” as
aforesaid, unless such building or structure as aforesaid is so used or
occupied by twenty or more persons as aforesaid.