                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SALE, ETC., OF PLASTIC BAGS; WARNING REQUIRED (§ 18.2-320)

a. No person shall sell, offer for sale, or deliver, or offer for delivery, or
give away any plastic bag or partial plastic bag intended to enclose freshly
cleaned clothing, the length of which totals twenty-five inches or more and the
material of which is less than one mil (1/1000 inch) in thickness; unless such
plastic bag bears the following warning statement, or a warning statement which
the Commissioner of Health has approved as the equivalent thereof:
			&#8220;WARNING: To avoid danger of suffocation, keep this plastic bag away
from babies and children. Do not use this bag in cribs, beds, carriages or
playpens.&#8221;

b. Such warning statement shall be imprinted in a prominent place on the plastic
bag or shall appear on a label securely attached to the bag in a prominent
place, and shall be printed in legible type of at least thirty-six point type.

c. Violators of this section shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 18.1-415.1; 1968, c. 340; 1975, cc. 14, 15.