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The code of the city of Charlottesville, Virginia :

the charter as amended and the general ordinances of the city enacted as a whole June 6th, 1932, in effect July 15th, 1932
  
  

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Sec. 267. Keeping houses of ill-fame.

Any person who shall keep a house of ill-fame, resorted to
for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, and each inmate


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thereof, shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $200.00
or confined in jail not exceeding three months, or both. In a
prosecution of this offense the general character of the house
may be proved.