CHAPTER 701

An Act to prohibit certain commercial advertising, to provide certain ex-
ceptions, to provide certain rules of evidence, to provide injunctive
relief, and to repeal certain acts.

[S 353]

Approved April 8, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

. § 1. Except where the context clearly requires a different meaning,
the following terms shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them:
“Person” means any individual, partnership, association, corporation,

or organized group of persons whether incorporated or not.

“Establishment” means any building or part thereof, including with-
out being limited to public inns and hotels, any structure, enclosure, tract of
land, and all improvements, appurtenances, and additions, bodies of water
whether natural or artificial, and any other place of whatsoever nature
to which the general public is or will be admitted, allowed or invited on
payment of a fee, free of charge or otherwise.

§ 2. (a) No person, directly or indirectly, for himself or for another,
shall publish in any newspaper or magazine, post on any sign, or broad-
cast by radio or television any commercial advertisement that any person
not otherwise prohibited by law from using an establishment is not wel-
come, or is objectionable, or is not acceptable because of his religion. No
person shall cause or solicit another person to violate this section.

(b) This act shall not apply (1) to any establishment which is private
or restricted to membership only; (2) to any college, school, educational in-
stitution, or camp, admission to which is based on religious belief or af-
filiation; (3) to any gathering, meeting or assembly held under the
auspices of any religious group or sect.

(c) Any commercial advertisement as set forth herein is declared a
public nuisance and shall be subject to abatement by injunctive relief; any
aggrieved individual or group of individuals may proceed to obtain an in-
junction enjoining and restraining the person from continuing such com-
mercial advertisement.

2. If any section, sentence, phrase, word or words of this act be held or
declared invalid or unconstitutional, such adjudication shall in no manner
affect any other section, sentence, phrase, word or words of this act which
remain in full force and effect.

3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are repealed to the
extent of such conflict.