                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

OFFENSES AND PUNISHMENTS (§ 59.1-96)

It shall be unlawful for any person to fill with soda waters, mineral or aerated
waters, cider, ginger ale, milk, or soft drinks, or other beverages or with
medicine, medical preparations, perfumery, oils, compounds or mixtures, any
bottle, box, crate, tin or keg so marked or distinguished as provided in §
59.1-94 with or by any name, mark or device, of which a description shall have
been filed and published, as provided in such section, or to deface, erase,
obliterate, cover up or otherwise remove, or conceal, any such name, mark or
device thereon, or to sell, buy, give, take, receive, or otherwise dispose of or
traffic in the same without the written consent of, or unless the same shall
have been purchased by an agreement in writing from, the person whose mark or
device shall be or shall have been in or upon the bottle, siphon, siphon head,
crate, tin or keg so filled, trafficked in, used or handled as aforesaid. It
shall also be unlawful for any person to sell, buy, rent, or otherwise traffic
in any clean laundered or soiled articles mentioned in this chapter so marked or
designated as provided in § 59.1-94 with or by any name, mark or device, of
which a description shall have been filed and published, as provided in such
section, or to deface, erase, obliterate, cover up or otherwise remove or
conceal, any such name, mark or device thereon, or to sell, buy, give, take,
receive or otherwise dispose of or traffic in the same without the written
consent of, or unless the same shall have been purchased by an agreement in
writing from, the person whose mark or device shall be or shall have been in or
upon any such clean laundered or soiled article. Any person offending against
the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be punished for the first offense by imprisonment for not less than ten
days, nor more than one year, or by a fine of $5, and in addition thereto fifty
cents for each and every such bottle, box, siphon, siphon head, crate, tin, or
keg, sold, disposed of, received, bought or trafficked in, or by both such fine
and imprisonment, and for each subsequent offense by imprisonment for not less
than twenty days nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than $50, and
in addition thereto $1 for each and every bottle, box, siphon, crate, tin or keg
filled, sold, used, disposed of, received, bought or trafficked in, or by both
such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the judge or jury before whom
the offense shall be tried; provided that in the case of any person offending
against the provisions of this section relating to clean laundered or soiled
articles such fine for the first offense shall be not less than $25 nor more
than $200 and for each subsequent offense, the fine shall be not less than $50
nor more than $400.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 59-193; 1958, c. 579; 1968, c. 439.