CHAPTER 94

An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-849 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to minors in public poolrooms.
[H 274]

Approved March 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.1-349 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 18.1-349. No minor shall frequent, play in or loiter in any public
poolroom or billiard room operated in conjunction with any establishment
licensed under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act; nor shall any minor
under eighteen years of age frequent, play in or loiter in any other public
poolroom or billiard room; nor shall the proprietor of any public poolroom
or hilliard room or his agent permit any minor to frequent, play in or
loiter in any such place in violation of the foregoing provisions of this
section.

Any such minor or any such proprietor or agent violating the provi-
sions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a
fine of not less than five dollars or by imprisonment in jail not more than
six months or by both such fine and imprisonment.

But nothing in this section shall apply to any poolroom or billiard
room located at a health resort with a natural mineral spring, nor to
military or naval personnel in uniform in any poolroom or billiard room,
or within any county, city or town which has adopted * an ordinance
regulating the frequenting, * playing in or loitering in public poolrooms
or billiard rooms by minors. *