CHAPTER 46

An Act to amend and reenact § 19-29, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to when search warrants may issue in certain cases.

[H 89]
Approved September 29, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 19-29 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 19-29.—On like complaint, on oath, according to the nature of the
ease, supported by the affidavit required by § 19-30, such justice or judge
to whom it is made, if satisfied that there is reasonable cause therefor,
shall issue a warrant to search specified places for the following things:

(1) Counterfeit or spurious coin, forged bank notes, and other instru-
ments or writings, or any tools, machines or materials for making them;

(2) Any book or other thing containing obscene language, or any
print, picture, figure, or description manifestly tending to corrupt the
morals of youth, and intended to be sold, loaned, circulated, or distributed,
or to be introduced into a family, school or place of education;

(3) Lottery tickets, or materials unlawfully made, provided or pro-
cured for drawing a lottery;

(4) Any gaming apparatus or implements used, or kept and pro-
vided to be used, in unlawful gaming or in any place resorted to for
unlawful gaming;

(5) Weapons or other objects used in the commission of a crime;

(6) Any cannabis, coca leaves, heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine, or
laudanum, or any compound, manufacture, mixture, salt, derivative or
preparation thereof, or any synthetic substitute for cannabis, coca leaves,
heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine, or laudanum, or any compound, manu-
facture, mixture, salt, derivative or preparation thereof, used or pos-
sessed in violation of § 18-305.1 or §§ 54-487 to 54-519, inclusive, of the
Code of Virginia, or any dangerous drug as defined in § 54-440 of the
Code of Virginia, the sale or possession of which is prohibited by § 54-441
or § 54-442.

(7) Fireworks or fire crackers on the premises of a merchant or
vendor where a business is conducted and where possession or sale of same
is unlawful by local ordinance.

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