CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROFANE SWEARING AND INTOXICATION IN PUBLIC; PENALTY; TRANSPORTATION OF PUBLIC
INEBRIATES TO DETOXIFICATION CENTER (§ 18.2-388)

If any person profanely curses or swears or is intoxicated in public, whether
such intoxication results from alcohol, narcotic drug or other intoxicant or
drug of whatever nature, he shall be deemed guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.  In
any area in which there is located a court-approved detoxification center a
law-enforcement officer may authorize the transportation, by police or
otherwise, of public inebriates to such detoxification center in lieu of arrest;
however, no person shall be involuntarily detained in such center.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-237; 1960, c. 358; 1964, c. 434; 1975, cc. 14, 15;
1979, c. 654; 1982, c. 666; 1983, c. 187; 1990, c. 965.