The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. The oldest record of it is its appearance in the Code of Virginia of 1919, as §§ 935, 936, 23-44, and 23-46. It has been modified 6 times. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1938, at page 444; in 1944, at page 402; in 1945, at page 52; in 1960, chapter 180; in 2016, chapter 588; in 2025, chapter 607.