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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84491</law_id><section_number>3.2-5139</section_number><catch_line>Disposition of proceeds from sale of such goods</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="IV">Food and Drink; Weights and Measures</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="51">Food and Drink</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="4">Seizures, Prosecutions, Penalties, and Enforcement</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The proceeds arising from any sale of seized property or goods shall be disposed of in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Sharing of forfeited assets" href="/19.2-386.14/">19.2-386.14</a>. If the owner or <span class="dictionary">party</span> claiming the property or goods can produce and prove a written guaranty of purity, signed by the wholesaler, jobber, manufacturers, or other <span class="dictionary">party</span> residing within the Commonwealth from whom the articles were purchased, then the proceeds of the sale, over and above the costs of seizure, forfeiture and sale, shall be paid to the owner or claimant to reimburse him, to the extent of such surplus, for his actual loss resulting from the seizure and forfeiture as shown by the invoice.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 3-334; 1966, c. 702, &#xA7; 3.1-413; 2008, c. 860; 2012, cc. 283, 756.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
