CHAPTER 762

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
4-73.2, so as to prohibit the purchase of alcoholic beverages by certaun
people; to provide a penalty for violation; to provide for immunity
from prosecution in certain cases.

[H 943]

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
4-73.2, as follows:

§ 4-73.2. It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of twen-
ty-one years to purchase alcoholic beverages. Violators of this section shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any minor who testifies on behalf of the Com-
monwealth or the prosecution or any minor who is subpoenaed by the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board in any case involving the illegal sale of
alcoholic beverages to a minor shall not be prosecuted under this section.

No person shall be convicted under this section unless there was
posted in some prominent place in the establishment wherein the purchase
was made a sign or notice advising that purchase by persons under the
age of twenty-one years of alcoholic beverages containing more than three
and two-tenths per centum alcohol by weight, is unlawful.