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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63247</law_id><section_number>63.2-621</section_number><catch_line>Restrictions on use of TANF cash assistance</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Public Assistance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="6">Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Recipients of <span class="dictionary">TANF</span> benefits pursuant to this chapter shall not access <span class="dictionary">TANF</span> cash benefits through an electronic benefit transaction (i) for the purchase of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, lottery tickets, or sexually explicit visual <span class="dictionary">materials</span> as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Production, publication, sale, financing, etc., of child pornography; presumption as to age" href="/18.2-374.1/">18.2-374.1</a>; (ii) in any transaction in any (a) government store established for the sale of alcoholic beverages, (b) establishment in which pari-mutuel wagering or charitable gaming is conducted, or (c) establishment in which tattooing or body-piercing, as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/54.1-700/">54.1-700</a>, is performed for hire or consideration; or (iii) in any establishment that provides adult-oriented entertainment in which performers or other individuals connected with the business appear nude or partially nude.</p></section></text><history>2013, cc. 160, 733.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
