CHAPTER 95

An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-849 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to minors in public poolrooms or billiard rooms. CH 884]

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. Minors in public poolrooms or billiard rooms.—No minor
shall frequent, play in or loiter in any public poolroom or billiard room
operated in conjunction with any establishment licensed under the Alco-
holic 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 billiard 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 pro-
visions 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 which has adopted the county manager form of organ-
ization and government provided for in Chapter 11 (§ 15-266 et seq.) of
Title 15 of this Code, and which adopted an ordinance regulating the
frequenting of poolrooms and billiard rooms by minors. Any such county
is hereby authorized to adopt such ordinances.

The term “public poolrooms” as used herein shall not be construed to
include an establishment in which not more than three miniature pool
pani nee operate on the coin-in-the-slot principle are exclusively kept
or played.