                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

UNLAWFUL TO DISCLOSE CERTAIN INFORMATION (§ 5.1-140)

It shall be unlawful for any air carrier or broker or any officer, receiver,
trustee, lessee, agent, or employee of such carrier, broker, or person, or for
any other person authorized by such carrier, broker, or person to receive
information, knowingly to disclose to, or permit to be acquired by any person
other than the shipper or consignee, without the consent of such shipper or
consignee, any information concerning the nature, kind, quantity, destination,
consignee, or routing of any property tendered or delivered to such air carrier
or broker for such transportation, which information may be used to the
detriment or prejudice of such shipper or consignee, or which may improperly
disclose his business transactions to a competitor; and it shall also be
unlawful for any person to solicit or receive knowingly any such information
which may be so used.
		Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the giving of such
information in response to any legal process issued under the authority of any
court, or to any officer or agent of the government of the United States or of
any state, territory, or district thereof, in the exercise of his power, or to
any officer or other duly authorized person seeking such information for the
prosecution of persons charged with or suspected of crimes or to another carrier
or broker, or its duly authorized agent, for the purpose of adjusting mutual
traffic accounts in the ordinary course of business of such carriers or brokers.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 56-195; 1970, c. 708.