                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN UNLAWFUL TO BUY (§ 59.1-125)

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to barter, purchase,
exchange, or buy from any person whomsoever, except plumbers, the owner of
buildings from which the material is taken, railroad, coal mining, industrial,
manufacturing and public utility companies, or the authorized agents of such
companies, lawful owners and junk dealers, licensed in this Commonwealth, any
secondhand steel, copper, copper wire, aluminum, aluminum wire, brass, brass
bearings or fittings, electric light or gas fixtures, locks or other builders
hardware, plumbing fixtures, bell or bell fixtures, lead or brass water pipes or
any part of such fixtures or pipes, or any wire, cable, lead, solder, copper,
iron or brass used by or belonging to a railroad, telephone, telegraph, coal
mining, industrial, manufacturing or public utility company; provided that this
section shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation which shall barter,
purchase, exchange, buy or accept any secondhand grooved or figure-eight copper
trolley wire, bare or insulated heavy stranded copper or aluminum feeder wire,
high voltage copper or aluminum transmission wire, or bare or insulated mining
machine copper cables, but § 59.1-128 shall be applicable thereto.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 59-153; 1958, c. 614; 1968, c. 439; 2011, c. 836.