                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXCEPTIONS TO ARTICLE; CERTAIN SPORTING EVENTS (§ 18.2-333)

Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent any contest of speed or
skill between men, animals, fowl or vehicles, where participants may receive
prizes or different percentages of a purse, stake or premium dependent upon
whether they win or lose or dependent upon their position or score at the end of
such contest.
		Any participant who, for the purpose of competing for any such purse, stake or
premium offered in any such contest, knowingly and fraudulently enters any
contestant other than the contestant purported to be entered or knowingly and
fraudulently enters a contestant in a class in which it does not belong, shall
be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 18.1-319, 18.1-322; 1960, c. 358; 1968, c. 401; 1975,
cc. 14, 15.