§ 18.2-214.1 Penalties for failure to report removal or alteration of identification or serial number on business machines
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or corporation regularly engaged in the business of repairing, selling, renting or leasing of business machines to fail to report any business machine which such person, firm, association, or corporation knows has an altered or removed identification or serial number. The report shall be made to the appropriate law-enforcement agency for the county, city, or town where such business machine is located.
For purposes of this section, the term “business machines” includes, but is not limited to, typewriters, adding machines, check-writing machines, cash registers, calculators, addressing machines, copying, and accounting equipment, and recording equipment.
Any person, firm, association, or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.
History
This law was first created in 1981. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 186 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1981 “Acts” aren’t available online. It has been modified 1 time. 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. That modification is as follows: in 1982, chapter 154.
1981, c. 186; 1982, c. 154.