CHAPTER 694

An Act to authorize the governing bodies of certain counties to adopt
ordinances regulating the keeping of animals therein.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the governing body of any county containing within its boun-
daries a city of the first class and two incorporated towns having popula-
tions in excess of three thousand inhabitants shall have power, whenever
in its judgment the same is necessary for the preservation of the public
health, to regulate the keeping of swine by any person within one hundred
yards of any residence.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.