                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REGISTRATION OF MANUFACTURERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF GOODS MADE BY BLIND PERSONS;
AUTHORIZATION TO USE OFFICIAL STAMP, LABEL, ETC (§ 51.5-101)

To facilitate ready and authoritative identification of goods or articles made
by blind persons, any person and any public or private institution or agency,
firm, association or corporation engaged in the manufacture or distribution of
goods or articles made by a blind person or persons shall apply to the
Department for a registration and authorization to use an official imprint,
stamp, symbol or label, designed or approved by the Department, to identify
goods and articles as made by blind persons. Nothing in this article shall
authorize the identification of goods or articles as made by blind persons when
the labor performed by blind persons in connection therewith shall consist
solely of the packaging or packing thereof as distinguished from the
preparation, processing or assembling of such goods or articles; nor shall any
package the contents of which are not blind-made carry the label &#8220;packaged
by the blind&#8221; or words of similar import. The Department shall investigate
each application, under regulations it shall adopt for the administration of
this article, to assure that such person or organization is actually engaged in
the manufacture or distribution of blind-made goods or articles. The Department
may register, without investigation, nonresident individuals and out-of-state
agencies, firms, associations or corporations upon proof that they are
recognized and approved by the state of their residence or organization pursuant
to a law of such state imposing requirements substantially similar to those
prescribed pursuant to this article. All registrations shall be valid for one
year from date of issue. Nothing in this article shall be deemed to prohibit the
offering for sale or sale by a blind person of an article or articles made by
such blind person without application for registration or to require the
labeling of such article or articles.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 63-204.26; 1966, c. 169; 1968, c. 578, § 63.1-167; 2002,
c. 747.