                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN SPECIAL GRADES, MARKS, AND BRANDS ALLOWED; FILING A CERTIFICATE (§
3.2-4304)

Any person desiring to pack, mark, sell, or offer for sale any agricultural
product under any grade, trademark, brand, or other markings relating to grade,
quality or size, not established and adopted by the Commissioner, may file with
the Commissioner a certificate describing the special grade, trademark, brand,
or other markings. If the Commissioner: (i) approves of the completeness of
definitions of such special grade, trademark, brand, or other markings described
in the certificate; (ii) finds that such grade terminology, trademark, brand,
other markings, or definitions are in no way deceptive; and (iii) determines
that definitions used to describe grade, classifications, quality, condition,
size, variety, or other characteristics of agricultural products clearly
document where they differ from the official grades, the special grade,
trademark, brand, or other markings may thereafter be used by the person filing
the certificate. For the purpose of this section a brand, trademark, or other
markings may represent a grade.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 3-261; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-340; 2008, c. 860; 2020, c.
317.