                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INTERFERENCE WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF GOVERNOR, STATE REPRESENTATIVE OR AGENT (§
56-517)

No person, organization or association or any bargaining representative of the
employees or any representative or agent of the management of the utility shall
interfere with or obstruct the Governor, or any state representative or agent
designated by him, in his efforts to secure or contract for the services of the
officers and employees of the utility or of any person to engage in or continue
the operation of the utility, or shall encourage or solicit any such persons not
to render such services or shall interfere in or obstruct the training of
prospective employees in the operation of the utility by the Governor or by the
designated state representatives. Upon seizure of any utility as provided herein
the establishment or conduct of a picket line near or adjacent to any work
engaged in or proposed to be engaged in by any such persons employed or sought
to be employed by the Commonwealth in its operation of such utility shall be
deemed an unlawful obstruction of the exercise of an essential function of the
state government and a violation of this section; and all persons ordering,
directing, encouraging or participating in any such picketing shall be guilty of
violating this section.

HISTORY: 1952, c. 696.