CHAPTER 583

An Act to amend and reenact § 8-686, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the maximum amount of damages recoverable in an action
for death by wrongful act.

[H 177]

Approved April 5, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 8-636, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 8-636. The jury in any such action may award such damages as
to it may seem fair and just, not exceeding * forty thousand dollars, and
may direct in what proportion they shall be distributed to the surviving
widow or husband and children and grandchildren of the deceased, or if
there be none such, then to the parents, brothers and sisters of the deceased.
Nothing shall be apportioned to the parents, brothers and sisters of the
deceased, if there be a surviving widow or husband, children or grand-
children, but between members of the same class the jury shall have
absolute discretion as to who shall receive the whole or any part of the
recovery. The maximum amount of damages that may be awarded under
thts section in the amount of fifty thousand dollars shall not apply to any
cause of action arising prior to July one, nineteen hundred sixty-siz.