                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

UNLAWFUL OPERATION OF COIN BOX TELEPHONE, PARKING METER, VENDING MACHINE, ETC
(§ 18.2-179)

Any person who shall operate, cause to be operated, or attempt to operate or
cause to be operated any coin box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or
other machine that operates on the coin-in-the-slot principle, whether of like
kind or not, designed only to receive lawful coin of the United States of
America, in connection with the use or enjoyment of telephone or telegraph
service, parking privileges or any other service, or the sale of merchandise or
other property, by means of a slug, or any false, counterfeit, mutilated,
sweated or foreign coin, or by any means, method, trick or device whatsoever,
not authorized by the owner, lessee or licensee of such coin box telephone,
parking meter, vending machine or other machine; or who shall obtain or receive
telephone or telegraph service, parking privileges, merchandise, or any other
service or property from any such coin box telephone, parking meter, vending
machine or other machines, designed only to receive lawful coin of the United
States of America, without depositing in or surrendering to such coin box
telephone, parking meter, vending machine, or other machine lawful coin of the
United States of America to the amount required therefor by the owner, lessee or
licensee of such coin box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other
machine, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 28.1-124; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.