                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SALE OF GOODS MARKED &#8220;STERLING&#8221; AND &#8220;STERLING SILVER.&#8221;
(§ 18.2-233)

A person who makes or sells or offers to sell or dispose of or has in his
possession with intent to sell or dispose of any article of merchandise marked,
stamped or branded with the words &#8220;sterling&#8221; or &#8220;sterling
silver,&#8221; or encased or enclosed in any box, package, cover or wrapper, or
other thing in or by which such article is packed, enclosed or otherwise
prepared for sale or disposition, having thereon any engraving or printed label,
stamp, imprint, mark or trademark indicating or denoting by such marking,
stamping, branding, engraving or printing that such article is silver, sterling
silver or solid silver, unless nine hundred and twenty-five one-thousandths part
of the component parts of the metal of which such article is manufactured is
pure silver, shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 59.1-62; 1968, c. 439; 1975, cc. 14, 15.