2020 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
Chapter 7 - Crimes Involving Health and Safety
§ 18.2-283. Carrying dangerous weapon to place of religious worship

Universal Citation: VA Code § 18.2-283 (2020)

If any person carry any gun, pistol, bowie knife, dagger or other dangerous weapon, without good and sufficient reason, to a place of worship while a meeting for religious purposes is being held at such place he shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.

Code 1950, ยง 18.1-241; 1960, c. 358; 1962, c. 411; 1975, cc. 14, 15.

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