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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70380</law_id><section_number>32.1-217</section_number><catch_line>License and registration number; renewal; licenses not transferable; responsibility of branch factories</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="32.1">Health</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Environmental Health Services</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7">Bedding and Upholstered Furniture</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Every <span class="dictionary">importer</span> and every <span class="dictionary">person</span> manufacturing, renovating or reupholstering any <span class="dictionary">bedding</span> or <span class="dictionary">upholstered furniture</span> or processing or selling any <span class="dictionary">filling material</span> to be used in articles of <span class="dictionary">bedding</span> or <span class="dictionary">upholstered furniture</span> shall first obtain a license from the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> for each place of business, subsidiary or branch operated by him for such purpose. Such license shall be numbered, shall expire one year from the date of <span class="dictionary">issue</span>, shall be renewable annually unless sooner revoked and shall not be transferable. Each branch, branch factory and subsidiary shall be responsible for the contents and for the tagging, as provided in this article, of items of <span class="dictionary">bedding</span> and <span class="dictionary">upholstered furniture</span> made, remade, renovated, reupholstered or imported by it and offered for sale or use in the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-254024" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-217/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> shall assign a registration number to each licensee. <a id="paragraph-254025" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/32.1-217/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-120.1; 1954, c. 666; 1956, c. 530; 1970, c. 578; 1976, c. 317; 1979, c. 711.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
