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  2. Gun laws in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Virginia shall issue a CHP to applicants 21 years of age or older, provided that they meet certain safety training requirements and do not have any disqualifying conditions under Title § 18.2-308.09 of the Virginia Code.

  3. Code of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Title page to the Code of 1819, formally titled The Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia. The Code of Virginia is the statutory law of the U.S. state of Virginia and consists of the codified legislation of the Virginia General Assembly. The 1950 Code of Virginia is the revision currently in force.

  4. Conspiracy against rights - Wikipedia

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    The law was originally enacted, with slightly different phrasing, in Section 6 of the Enforcement Act of 1870. [3]: 913 The statutory text was revised in 1909 and in 1948, when it became Section 241 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code. [4]: 236 Conspiracy against rights was initially invoked against vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan that acted to prevent recently-emancipated Black Southerners ...

  5. Virginia Tech shooting - Wikipedia

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    An administrative law judge reduced the amount and Duncan agreed to the reduction. At the time, Virginia Tech announced that it was considering appeals on both fines. [243] Ultimately, Virginia Tech paid a total of $32,500 in February 2014, saying it was closing "this chapter on the tragedy of April 16, 2007," without admitting wrongdoing.

  6. Loving v. Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Lovings were charged under Section 20-58 of the Virginia Code, which prohibited interracial couples from being married out of state and then returning to Virginia, and Section 20-59, which classified miscegenation as a felony, punishable by a prison sentence of between one and five years. [17]

  7. Capital punishment in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment was abolished in Virginia on March 24, 2021, when Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill into law. The law took effect on July 1, 2021. Virginia is the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, and the first southern state in United States history to do so.

  8. LGBTQ rights in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    In March 2024, the governor signed into law a bill explicitly "protecting and codifying" same-sex marriage into the Virginia Code. Effective from July 1. [9] [10] Virginia voters ratified a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman in November 2006. [11]

  9. Reckless driving - Wikipedia

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    The Code of Virginia has many articles pertaining to reckless driving. For example, Virginia code Virginia Code § 46.2-862 explicitly defines the act of speeding 20 mph or more above the posted speed limit, or at any speed greater than 85 mph, as reckless driving. [6]