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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\u2019t available online. It has been modified 3 times. 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. Those modifications are as follows: in 1958, chapter 579; in 1968, chapter 439; in 2002, chapter 858<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":85779,"section_number":"59.1-102","catch_line":"Records; previous filing and publishing of names, marks, etc","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-102\/"},{"id":80958,"section_number":"59.1-96","catch_line":"Offenses and punishments","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-96\/"},{"id":74878,"section_number":"59.1-98","catch_line":"Procedure when violation charged; awarding possession of property to owner","order_by":null,"url":"\/59.1-98\/"}],"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":263031,"object_type":"law","relational_id":67149,"identifier":"59.1-94","token":"59.1\/7\/59.1-94","url":"\/59.1-94\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/59.1-94\/","token":"59.1\/7\/59.1-94","dublin_core":{"Title":"Filing and publication of description of names, marks or devices","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 59.1-94","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Any person engaged in manufacturing, bottling or selling soda waters, mineral or aerated waters, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, ice cream, soft drinks or other beverages, or medicines, medical preparations, perfumery, oils, compounds or mixtures, in bottles, siphons, tins, crates or kegs, with his or its name or other marks or devices branded, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, impressed or otherwise produced upon such bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, crates, or kegs, or the boxes used by him, or any person engaged in the business of regularly supplying clean laundered garments, towels, table or bed linens or other such articles with his or its name or other marks or devices woven, impressed or produced thereon, and who periodically exchanges such clean articles for soiled articles, may file in the office of the clerk of the circuit<\/span> court<\/span> in which his principal office of business is situated, or if such person shall manufacture, supply or bottle out of this Commonwealth, then in any county or city in this Commonwealth, and also in the office of the State Corporation Commission, a description of the name or names or marks or devices so used by him and cause such description to be printed once in each week, for three weeks successively, in a newspaper published in the county or city in which such description may have been filed as aforesaid, and if there be no newspaper published in the county or city in which such description has been filed, then in the newspaper published nearest to that county or city, and he shall thereupon be deemed the proprietor of such name, mark or device, and of every vessel or receptacle or clean laundered or soiled articles mentioned herein upon which it may be branded, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, impressed, woven or otherwise produced.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nFILING AND PUBLICATION OF DESCRIPTION OF NAMES, MARKS OR DEVICES (\u00a7 59.1-94)\n\nAny person engaged in manufacturing, bottling or selling soda waters, mineral or\naerated waters, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, ice cream, soft drinks or other\nbeverages, or medicines, medical preparations, perfumery, oils, compounds or\nmixtures, in bottles, siphons, tins, crates or kegs, with his or its name or\nother marks or devices branded, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, impressed or\notherwise produced upon such bottles, siphons, siphon heads, tins, crates, or\nkegs, or the boxes used by him, or any person engaged in the business of\nregularly supplying clean laundered garments, towels, table or bed linens or\nother such articles with his or its name or other marks or devices woven,\nimpressed or produced thereon, and who periodically exchanges such clean\narticles for soiled articles, may file in the office of the clerk of the circuit\ncourt in which his principal office of business is situated, or if such person\nshall manufacture, supply or bottle out of this Commonwealth, then in any county\nor city in this Commonwealth, and also in the office of the State Corporation\nCommission, a description of the name or names or marks or devices so used by\nhim and cause such description to be printed once in each week, for three weeks\nsuccessively, in a newspaper published in the county or city in which such\ndescription may have been filed as aforesaid, and if there be no newspaper\npublished in the county or city in which such description has been filed, then\nin the newspaper published nearest to that county or city, and he shall\nthereupon be deemed the proprietor of such name, mark or device, and of every\nvessel or receptacle or clean laundered or soiled articles mentioned herein upon\nwhich it may be branded, stamped, engraved, etched, blown, impressed, woven or\notherwise produced.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 59-191; 1958, c. 579; 1968, c. 439; 2002, c. 858.","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}}