TFred
Regular Member
While taking a closer look at the air-gun code change, I discovered this curious thing.
The new bill was passed in "Chapter 832 - An Act to amend and reenact § 15.2-915.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to localities regulation of pneumatic guns."
The Chapter has two paragraphs, 1. and 2.
Paragraph 1 describes the change in the text of the appropriate section of code, 15.2-915.4.
Paragraph 2 says this (read just the bold for the important parts): "That notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, any local ordinance adopted prior to the effective date of this act that {doesn't satisfy this new law...} prohibits the use of pneumatic guns on or within private property with permission of the owner or legal possessor of the property when conducted with reasonable care to prevent a projectile from crossing the bounds of the property shall be invalid.
Now here's my observation and question:
Paragraph 2, which invalidates any prior laws that are not compatible with the change, does not appear anywhere within the actual "Code of Virginia". So if one were to search that code from front to back, they would not see that the consequence of not updating local ordinances is to render them invalid. That's a rather important bit of information to know. What it means is that for these places that are reluctant or who wish to not bring their local ordinance into compliance, they are actually invalidating the ordinance they do have on the books at this time.
How would one most efficiently and directly search for things like this concerning other laws or subjects that may be important to us?
TFred
The new bill was passed in "Chapter 832 - An Act to amend and reenact § 15.2-915.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to localities regulation of pneumatic guns."
The Chapter has two paragraphs, 1. and 2.
Paragraph 1 describes the change in the text of the appropriate section of code, 15.2-915.4.
Paragraph 2 says this (read just the bold for the important parts): "That notwithstanding any other provision of law, general or special, any local ordinance adopted prior to the effective date of this act that {doesn't satisfy this new law...} prohibits the use of pneumatic guns on or within private property with permission of the owner or legal possessor of the property when conducted with reasonable care to prevent a projectile from crossing the bounds of the property shall be invalid.
Now here's my observation and question:
Paragraph 2, which invalidates any prior laws that are not compatible with the change, does not appear anywhere within the actual "Code of Virginia". So if one were to search that code from front to back, they would not see that the consequence of not updating local ordinances is to render them invalid. That's a rather important bit of information to know. What it means is that for these places that are reluctant or who wish to not bring their local ordinance into compliance, they are actually invalidating the ordinance they do have on the books at this time.
How would one most efficiently and directly search for things like this concerning other laws or subjects that may be important to us?
TFred