CHAPTER 394

An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-858 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to Sunday selling and the enforcement of same. Hn 109
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Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

A That § 18.1-358 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 18.1-358. On the first day of the week, commonly known and desig-
nated as Sunday, it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in work,
labor or business or to employ others to engage in work, labor or business
except in household or other work of necessity or charity. The exemption
for works of necessity * contained in the preceding sentence shall not be
deemed to include selling at retail or wholesale or by auction, or offering
or attempting to sell, on Sunday, any of the following: jewelry; precious
and semi-precious stones ; silverware; watches; clocks; luggage: > musical
instruments; recordings; toys ( excluding items "customarily sold as novel-
ties and souvenirs) ; clothing and wearing apparel; clothing accessories;
footwear; textile yard goods; housewares; china; kitchenware; home,
business, office or outdoor furniture, furnishings and appliances; sporting
goods ( excluding sales or rental of bathing, boating, * and sales or rental on
the premises where sports, athletic events or recreational facilities are lo-
cated or conducted of equipment essential to the normal use or operation of
such premises for the purposes specified) ; pets, pet equipment or supplies;
cameras and photographic supplies (excluding film and flash bulbs) ; hard-
ware (excluding light bulbs, batteries and electrical fuses); tools; paints;
building and lumber supplies and materials; motor vehicles; trailers (ex-
cluding mobile homes) ; farm implements; lawn and garden equipment and
supplies; * fresh fruits and vegetables (excluding sales of * fresh fruits and
vegetables and other edible products which are both grown by the seller in
this State and sold either at roadside stands or at the place where grown) ;
or fresh, frozen or salt meats, poultry or seafood customarily inedible with-
out further cooking or preparation * . No inference shall arise from the
foregoing enumeration of classes of personal property that sales or offers or
attempts to sell other classes of personal property not mentioned are in-
cluded within the above exemption for works of necessity or charity. This
section shall not apply to furnaces, kilns, plants, wholesale food warehouses,
ship chandleries, or to the manufacture or sale of ice, and other business of
like kind that may be necessary to be conducted on Sunday, nor to the
publication, distribution and sale of newspapers or magazines, nor to
the * servicing, fueling or emergency repair of motor vehicles, boats or
aircraft, nor to the operation of motion picture theaters, nor to sports,
athletic events, scenic, historic and recreational and amusement facilities,
nor to the sale during a holiday season of evergreen trees, holly, mistletoe
or similar plants grown and customarily sold for home decoration, nor to the
sale of fishing paraphernalia and equipment.