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This law was first created in 1968. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 224 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1968 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 6 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1976, chapter 760; in 1986, chapter 164; in 1990, chapter 722; in 1995, chapters 732<\/a> and 796<\/a>; in 1997, chapter 587<\/a>; in 2017, chapter 377<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":157909,"object_type":"law","relational_id":58368,"identifier":"15.2-4202","token":"15.2\/IV\/42\/15.2-4202","url":"\/15.2-4202\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/15.2-4202\/","token":"15.2\/IV\/42\/15.2-4202","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 15.2-4202","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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