CHAPTER 662

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
18.1-235.1 in Article 3, Chapter 4 of Title 18.1, to provide for a specific
punishment upon an initial conviction of certain sections therein;
violation of such sections now constituting a misdemeanor; and to
amend and reenact § 18.1-236.1 of the Code of Virginia to provide for
additional offenses to be included under the felony provision when sub-
sequently convicted of offenses enumerated; both sections pertaining

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Approved April 5, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
18.1-235.1 in Article 3, Chapter 4 of Title 18.1 and that § 18.1-236.1 of the
Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 18.1-285.1. Any person, firm, association or corporation, convicted
for the first time of an offense under §§ 18.1-228, 18.1-280, 18.1-281,
18.1-282, 18.1-288, 18.1-284, or 18.1-285, shall be punished by confinement
in jal for not less than one nor more than twelve months, or by a fine of
not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars,
either or both, in the discretion of the court or the jury trying the case.

§ 18.1-236.1. Subsequent offenses.—Any person, firm, association
or corporation convicted of a second or other subsequent offense under
8§ 18.1-228, 18.1-230, 18.1-231, 18.1-238, 18.1-234, or 18.1-235 shall be
guilty of a felony and shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary
not less than one nor more than two years, or by confinement in jail not
exceeding twelve months, or by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars
nor more than * ten thousand dollars, either or both.