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- ORDINAHCE AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 38-5 OF TIlE CODE OF THE CITY OF PORTSHOOTH, VIRG.~NIA~ 1961~ RELATING TO Tile cARRYING '~)F CON~AL~/)~/EAPONS, SO AS TO CONFORM we CHANGES IN THE STATE LAW. Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that Section 38-5 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1961, be amended and reordained to read as follows: Sec. $8-5 Carrying concealed weapons - generally If any person carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, switchblade knife, razor, slungshot, metal knucks, or any weapon of like kind, he shall up- on conviction thereof be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more tllan five hundred dollars and~ in the discretion of the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, may, in addition thereto, be committed to jail for not more than twelve months, and such pistol, dirk, bowie knife, switchblade knife, razor, slungshot, metal knucks, or weapon of like kind, shall, by order of the court be forfeited to the City and may be seized by an officer as forfeited~ and such as may be needed for police officers and con- servators of the peace shall be devoted to that purpose, and the remainder shall be destroyed by the officer having them in charge. This .section shall not apply to any police officer, sergeants, sheriffs, officers or guards of the penitentiary or other institutions or camps of the State corrections system conser- vators of the peace other than notaries public, or to carriers of United States mail in the rural districts, or to any collecting officer while in the d~scharge of his official duty. Adopted by the Council of the City of Ports- mouth, Virginia, at a meeti~ held May 10, 1966. Teste: City Clerk