CHAPTER 532

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
8-654.1:1 providing for the recovery of damages from parents of
certain minors for malicious or willful destruction or damage to
property by such minors.

[S 190]
Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
8-654.1:1, as follows:

8 8-654.1:1. The owner of any property may institute an action
and recover from the parents, or either of them, of any minor under
the age of eighteen years living with such parents, or either of them,
for damages suffered by reason of the willful or malicious destruction of,
or damage to, such property by such minor, provided that not exceeding
two hundred dollars may be recovered from such parents, or either of
them, as a result of any incident or occurrence on which such action is
based. Any such recovery from the parent or parents of such minor shall
not preclude full recovery from such minor except to the amount of the
recovery from such parent or parents. The provisions of this statute
shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other law imposing upon
a parent liability for the acts of his minor child.