                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

UNAUTHORIZED USE OF NAME OR PICTURE OF ANY PERSON; PUNISHMENT (§ 18.2-216.1)

A person, firm, or corporation that knowingly uses for advertising purposes, or
for the purpose of trade, the name, portrait, or picture of any person resident
in the Commonwealth, without having first obtained the written consent of such
person, or if dead, of his surviving consort, or if none, his next of kin, or,
if a minor, of his or her parent or guardian, as well as that of such minor,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined not less than $50 nor more
than $1,000.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-650; 1977, c. 624.