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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 176 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1970 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2008, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?081+ful+CHAP0860\">860<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":197487,"object_type":"law","relational_id":62640,"identifier":"3.2-5219","token":"3.2\/IV\/52\/4\/3.2-5219","url":"\/3.2-5219\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/3.2-5219\/","token":"3.2\/IV\/52\/4\/3.2-5219","dublin_core":{"Title":"No test or apparatus other than Babcock or other centrifugal machines to be used unless approved by Board","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 3.2-5219","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>No test or apparatus shall be used for the purpose of determining the composition of milk or cream as a basis for payment in buying or selling milk or cream or dairy products other than the Babcock or other centrifugal machines unless such other test or apparatus has been approved for such use by regulation of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span>. In the event that the <span class=\"dictionary\">Board<\/span> approves such other test or apparatus for such use, then the provisions of this article shall apply, <span class=\"dictionary\">mutatis mutandis<\/span>, to such approved test or apparatus.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nNO TEST OR APPARATUS OTHER THAN BABCOCK OR OTHER CENTRIFUGAL MACHINES TO BE USED\nUNLESS APPROVED BY BOARD (\u00a7 3.2-5219)\n\nNo test or apparatus shall be used for the purpose of determining the\ncomposition of milk or cream as a basis for payment in buying or selling milk or\ncream or dairy products other than the Babcock or other centrifugal machines\nunless such other test or apparatus has been approved for such use by regulation\nof the Board. In the event that the Board approves such other test or apparatus\nfor such use, then the provisions of this article shall apply, mutatis mutandis,\nto such approved test or apparatus.\n\nHISTORY: 1970, c. 176, \u00a7 3.1-531.1; 2008, c. 860.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}