CHAPTER 427

An Act to provide for the licensing and regulation of certain businesses
by counties, cities and towns, and penalties for violations.
[H 265]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The governing body of any county, city or town may, by ordi-
nance, regulate any business which collects animals for sale to others
for medical research, by prescribing how such animals shall be housed,
cared for and buried. Such ordinance shall prescribe for the issuance of
permits to operate such a business, grounds for revocation of such
permits, and prescribe a license tax not inconsistent with any provisions
of law. Provided, however, that in any county having an incorporated
town within its boundary which has or shall hereafter adopt an ordinance
under this section, then the provisions of the county ordinance shall not
apply within the corporate limits of such town.
Any county, city or town may prescribe the punishment for viola-
tions of ordinances adopted under the provisions of this act.