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HOUSE BILL NO. 185 Offered January 11, 2012 Prefiled January 9, 2012 A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-1429 of the Code of Virginia, relating to manner of enforcement of local criminal ordinances. ---------- Patron-- Gilbert ---------- Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 15.2-1429 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 15.2-1429. Penalties for violation of ordinances.

Any locality may prescribe fines and other punishments for violations of ordinances, which shall be enforced by proceedings as if such violations were misdemeanors. However, (i) no fine or term of confinement for the violation of ordinances shall exceed the penalties provided by general law for the violation of a Class 1 misdemeanor, and (ii) such penalties shall not exceed those penalties prescribed by general law for like offenses, and (iii) a person summoned or arrested for a misdemeanor offense under the Code of Virginia shall be charged and tried for that offense and shall not be charged and tried for a violation of a local ordinance representing a like offense.