                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MANUFACTURE, ETC., OF SLUGS, ETC., FOR SUCH UNLAWFUL USE (§ 18.2-180)

Any person who, with intent to cheat or defraud the owner, lessee, licensee or
other person entitled to the contents of any such coin box telephone, parking
meter, vending machine or other machine operated on the coin-in-the-slot
principle, designed only to receive lawful coin of the United States of America,
in connection with the use of any such coin box telephone, parking meter,
vending machine or other machine, or who, knowing or having reason to believe
that the same is intended for such unlawful use, shall manufacture, sell, offer
to sell, advertise for sale or give away any slug, device or substance
whatsoever, intended or calculated to be placed or deposited in any such coin
box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine, shall be guilty
of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
		The manufacture, sale, offer for sale, advertisement for sale, giving away or
possession of any such slug, device or substance whatsoever, intended or
calculated to be placed or deposited in any such coin box telephone, parking
meter, vending machine or other machine that operates on the coin-in-the-slot
principle, shall be prima facie evidence of intent to cheat or defraud within
the meaning of this section and § 18.2-179.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-125; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.