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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71818</law_id><section_number>3.2-2405</section_number><catch_line>Powers and duties of the Tobacco Board</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Boards, Councils, Foundations, and Commissions</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="B">Commodity Boards</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="24">Tobacco Board</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> All funds levied and collected under this chapter shall be administered by the Tobacco <span class="dictionary">Board</span>. <a id="paragraph-258722" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-2405/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The Tobacco <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall plan and conduct campaigns of education, advertising, publicity, sales promotion, and research to increase the demand for, and the consumption of, bright flue-cured and type 21 dark-fired tobaccos. <a id="paragraph-258723" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-2405/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The Tobacco <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may make <span class="dictionary">contracts</span>, expend moneys of the Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco Promotion Fund and the Dark-Fired Tobacco Promotion Fund, and do whatever else may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. <a id="paragraph-258724" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-2405/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> The Tobacco <span class="dictionary">Board</span> may cooperate with other state, regional, and national agricultural organizations in research, advertising, publicity, education, and other means of promoting the sale, use, and exportation of bright flue-cured and type 21 dark-fired tobaccos, and expend moneys of the Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco Promotion Fund and the Dark-Fired Tobacco Promotion Fund for such purposes. <a id="paragraph-258725" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-2405/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="E"><p><span class="prefix-number">E.</span> The Chairman shall make a report at the annual meeting of the Tobacco <span class="dictionary">Board</span> and furnish members with a statement of the total receipts and disbursements for the year. He shall file a copy of such report and the audit required by &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Bright Flue-Cured Tobacco Promotion Fund established" href="/3.2-2407/">3.2-2407</a> with the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. <a id="paragraph-258726" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-2405/#E"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 3-245 to 3-248; 1966, c. 702, &#xA7;&#xA7; 3.1-324 to 3.1-327; 1978, c. 540; 2008, c. 860; 2012, cc. 803, 835; 2017, cc. 8, 66.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
