CHAPTER 287

An Act to amend and reenact § 18-318, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to persons forbidden to frequent, or play or loiter in
public poolrooms or billiard rooms. CH 858]

Approved March 12, 1958

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18-318, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 18-313. No minor shall frequent, play in or loiter in any public
poolroom or billiard room operated in conjunction with any establishment
licensed under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, or be permitted by the
proprietor thereof or his agent to frequent, play in or loiter in any such
public poolroom or billiard room located outside of the corporate limits
of towns and cities; and no minor under eighteen years of age shall fre-
quent, play in or loiter in any other such public poolroom or billiard room
8o located.

Any such minor and any such proprietor violating the provisions of
this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not
less than five dollars or by imprisonment in jail not more than six months
or by both such fine and imprisonment.

But nothing in this section shall apply to any poolroom or billiard
room located at a health resort with a natural mineral spring, nor ‘to
military nor naval personnel in uniform in any poolroom or billiard room,
or within any county which has adopted the county manager form of
organization and government provided for in Chapter 11 of Title 15 of
this Code, and which has adopted an ordinance regulating the frequenting
of poolrooms and billiard rooms by minors. Any such county is hereby
authorized to adopt such ordinances.