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 § 5090. It has been modified 11 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 1932, at page 529; in 1942, at page 230; in 1946, at page 500; in 1960, chapter 363; in 1972, chapter 823; in 1974, chapters 44 and 45; in 1975, chapter 644; in 1989, chapter 733; in 2008, chapters 174 and 206; in 2016, chapters 457 and 543; in 2024, chapter 737.