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RICHMOND — Police said last week they would enforce a new ordinance aimed at people who sunbathe and swim in the nude at the James River, but the law doesn’t mean officers will wade into the water in their uniforms to seize offenders.
“I think, for the most part, common sense would dictate what the officers did,” said Maj. Joseph Higgins, who commands patrol operations for police here. “We would enforce the law as it occurs, whenever it’s possible.”
Henry W. Richardson was the only member of the seven-person City Council to oppose the ordinance.
Mr. Richardson asked Public Safety Director Jack M. Fulton if he realistically expected city police to wade out into the river to arrest nude sunbathers, especially with Richmond’s high homicide rate.
Mr. Fulton replied that, while police officers must enforce all the laws on the books, he would not expect officers to go after violators of the nudity law to the neglect of other crimes.
“I don’t think it will be a high priority, compared to crimes of violence and things of that nature,” Mr. Higgins said.
The new ordinance makes public nudity a misdemeanor publishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and up to a year in jail.
Want to buy some rocks?
MANAKIN — Not since the pet rock craze of the mid1970s has one of nature’s most abundant resources enjoyed such consumer success as the stones, rocks, slates and boulders hauled away daily from four Luck Stone Corp. retail stores in Virginia.
“They’ve been an unqualified success and have helped diversify our business tremendously,” said Joseph Newton, manager of the company’s flagship stone store here, a few miles west of Richmond in Goochland County.
The other retail stores are at Newport News, Charr
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