                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO REPORT REMOVAL OR ALTERATION OF IDENTIFICATION OR
SERIAL NUMBER ON BUSINESS MACHINES (§ 18.2-214.1)

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or corporation regularly
engaged in the business of repairing, selling, renting or leasing of business
machines to fail to report any business machine which such person, firm,
association, or corporation knows has an altered or removed identification or
serial number. The report shall be made to the appropriate law-enforcement
agency for the county, city, or town where such business machine is located.
		For purposes of this section, the term &#8220;business machines&#8221;
includes, but is not limited to, typewriters, adding machines, check-writing
machines, cash registers, calculators, addressing machines, copying, and
accounting equipment, and recording equipment.
		Any person, firm, association, or corporation violating the provisions of this
section shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: 1981, c. 186; 1982, c. 154.