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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67804</law_id><section_number>59.1-107</section_number><catch_line>Fraudulent use of mark or claim of ownership; defacement of mark, etc.; destruction or conversion of timber, etc</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="59.1">Trade and Commerce</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Timber Brands</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any person shall fraudulently or willfully use any such registered mark, or shall fraudulently claim to be the owner of any such marked sawlog, pile, square or hewn timber found or being in any of the aforesaid streams or waters, whether floating or aground or tied up to any wharf or other <span class="dictionary">object</span>, either as part of a raft or not, or shall take and carry away any such marked sawlog, pile or piece of square or hewn timber without the authority of the owner thereof, or shall willfully deface or obliterate any such mark, name, figure, letter, or other designation thereon, or shall fraudulently saw, split, consume, destroy, or injure any such marked sawlog, pile, square or hewn timber or shall without the consent of the owner thereof sell or convert the same to his own use unless it shall have been duly forfeited according to the provisions of this chapter or according to other provisions of <span class="dictionary">law</span>, he shall for every such <span class="dictionary">offense</span> upon <span class="dictionary">conviction</span> be confined in jail not less than sixty days and not exceeding twelve months.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 59-204; 1968, c. 439.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
