CHAPTER 300

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 58-9 and 58-291 of the Code of Virginia,
relating, respectively, to the definition of “penal institution” and to
certain. offenses committed by convicts deemed: felonies, providing

punishment therefor; and to repeal § 58-298 of the Code of Virginia

relating to punishment of crimes of convicts.
| [H 547,
Approved March 31, 1966 ..

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 53-9 and 53-291 of the Code of Virginia be amended and re
enacted as follows:

§ 53-9. The term “penal institution” as used. in .* this title mean:
and includes every prison, prison camp or prison farm heretofore or here
after established with funds appropriated from the State treasury, anc
every jail, jail farm, lock-up or other place of detention owned, main

ed or operated by any political subdivision of the Commonwealth
but shall not be taken to include any industrial school or other institutior
established solely for the detention of juvenile delinquents.

§ 53-291. * It shall be unlawful for an inmate in a penal institution
as defined in § 58-9 or im the custody of an employee thereof to do ant
of the following:

(1) to kill, wound or inflict bodily injury upon (a) such employes
or (b) any other person lawfully admitted to such penal institution, excep
another inmate, or (c) who is supervising or working with inmates; 07

(2) to escape from such penal institution or from any person 0
charge of such inmate; or

(3) break, cut or injure any building, fixture or fastening of sucl
tnstitution or any part thereof for the purpose of escaping or atding an}
other inmate to escape therefrom or rendering such institution less secure
as a place of confinement; or

4) make, procure, secrete or have in his POssSEssion any instru
ment, tool or other thing for the purpose of escaping from or aiding an
other to escape from such penal institution or person; or

(5) make, procure, secrete or have in his possession a knife, instru
ment, tool or other thing not authorized by the superintendent which 1
capable of tnflicting death or bodily injury; or |

(6) procure, sell, secrete or have in his possession any drug o1
chemical compound which he has not lawfully recetved.

An wmmate guilty of such killing as is mentioned in this section, o1
any act therein mentioned from which death ensues to such employee or
person shall be guilty of first degree murder and be punished by death. I;
the employee or person be injured and death not ensue, then the inmate
shall be guilty of a felony and be punished by confinement in the peniten
tary for a term of not less than three nor more than twenty years. For
any other offense mentioned in this section or § 58-292 the inmate shall be
guilty of a felony and he shall be punished by confinement in the peniten
tiary not less than one nor more than five years which sentence shall be
served after the end of the term for which he shall then be subject t
confinement.

2. § 58-298 of the Code of Virginia is hereby repealed..
certain proceedings by members of a governing body owning or having
any interest in land to be rezoned. (HL 666]

Approved March 81, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. P too § 15.1-78.2 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as fo

§ 15. 1-73.2. (a) In any zoning case involving amendment of a
zoning ordinance based upon an application for a change in the zontng
map, which does not constitute the adoption of a comprehensive zoning
plan or ordinance applicable throughout the political subdivision, and
which is pending before the governing body of any political subdivision
in which an individual member of such governing body owns, or has * any
interest in, the land to be * rezoned, such member shall, prior to any hear-
ing on the ‘matter or at such hearing, make a full, public disclosure of the
exact nature of his interest, and shall refrain from voting or participating
in any way in such case or in any hearing thereon. For the purpose of
section, “owning” or “having an interest in’ means ownership by such
member or any member or members of his immediate household, or owner-
ship by way of partnership or as holder of ten percent or more of the
outstanding shares of stock in or as a director or officer of a corporation
owning such land, directly or indirectly, by such member or members of
his immediate household.

(b) Any person knowingly and willfully violating the provisions of
this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.