                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SHIPPING REQUIREMENTS (§ 18.2-246.10)

Each person who mails, ships, or otherwise delivers cigarettes in connection
with a delivery sale:

1. Shall include as part of the shipping documents a clear and conspicuous
statement providing as follows: &#8220;Cigarettes: Virginia Law Prohibits
Shipping to Individuals Under 21, and Requires the Payment of all Applicable
Taxes&#8221;;

2. Shall use a method of mailing, shipping, or delivery that obligates the
delivery service or any party making delivery to require (i) the consumer
placing the purchase order for the delivery sale, or an adult of legal minimum
purchase age, to sign to accept delivery of the shipping container, and (ii)
proof, in the form of a valid, government-issued identification bearing a
photograph of the individual who signs to accept delivery of the shipping
container, demonstrating that he is either the addressee who is of legal minimum
purchase age or another adult of legal minimum purchase age. However, proof of
the legal minimum purchase age shall be required only if such individual appears
to be under 27 years of age; and

3. Shall provide to the delivery service retained for such delivery sale
evidence of full compliance with &#xA7; 18.2-246.12.

HISTORY: 2003, c. 1010; 2019, cc. 90, 102.