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VA Code § 59.1-97 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 7 - Names, Marks and Devices on Certain Containers and Other Articles|§ 59.1-97. Presumptive evidence of unlawful use and trafficking in marked containers and other articles

The use by any person other than the person whose device, name or mark shall be or shall have been upon the same without such written consent as aforesaid, of any such marked or distinguished bottle, box, siphon, siphon heads, crate, tin or keg, and filed and published as aforesaid, for the sale therein of soda water, mineral or aerated waters, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, soft drinks or other beverages, or of any articles of merchandise, medicines, medical preparations, perfumery, oils, compounds, mixtures or preparations, or for the furnishing of such or similar beverages to customers, or the receiving, buying, selling, using, disposing of or trafficking in any such bottles, boxes, siphons, siphon heads, crates, tins or kegs by any person other than the person having his name, mark or device thereon, or the having by any junk dealer, or dealers in secondhand articles, venders of bottles, etc., possession of any such bottles, boxes, siphons, siphon heads, crates, tins, or kegs, and description of the marks, names or devices whereon shall have been so filed and published, as aforesaid, or any such use of such device, name or mark distinguishing any clean laundered or soiled article mentioned in this chapter or any such receiving, buying, selling, using, disposing of or trafficking in any such article by any person other than the person having his name, mark or device thereon, or such having by any such junk dealer or other secondhand dealers possession of any such article and description of the marks, names or devices whereon shall have been so filed and published, as aforesaid, shall be presumptive evidence of the unlawful use and purchase of and trafficking in such bottles, siphons, boxes, siphon heads, crates, tins, kegs, or clean laundered or soiled article mentioned in this chapter.Code 1950, § 59-194; 1958, c. 579; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-98 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 7 - Names, Marks and Devices on Certain Containers and Other Articles|§ 59.1-98. Procedure when violation charged; awarding possession of property to owner

Whenever any person mentioned in § 59.1-94 or his agent shall make oath before any magistrate, or other officer empowered to issue criminal warrants, that he has reason to believe, and does believe, that within the city, town or county served by such magistrate or other officer, any of his bottles, boxes, siphons, siphon heads, crates, tins, kegs, or clean laundered or soiled articles mentioned in this chapter a description of the names, marks or devices whereon has been filed and published as aforesaid, are being unlawfully used or filled or had, by any person manufacturing or selling soda, mineral or aerated waters, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, soft drinks or other beverages or medicines, medical preparations, perfumery, oils, compounds or mixtures, or that any junk dealer or dealer in secondhand articles, vendor of bottles, or any other person has any such bottles, boxes, siphons, siphon heads, crates, tins, kegs or clean laundered or soiled articles mentioned in this chapter in his possession or secreted in any place, the magistrate or other officer, before whom such oath is made must thereupon issue a search warrant to discover and obtain the same, and may also issue his warrant stating the offense charged, and cause to be brought before any general district court having jurisdiction the person in whose possession such bottles, boxes, siphons, siphon heads, crates, tins, kegs or clean laundered or soiled articles mentioned in this chapter may be found, and shall then inquire into the circumstances of such possession and if such general district court finds such person has been guilty of a violation of § 59.1-96, it must impose the punishment therein prescribed, and it shall award possession of the property taken upon such warrant to the owner thereof.Code 1950, § 59-195; 1958, c. 579; 1968, c. 439; 2008, cc. 551, 691.
VA Code § 59.1-99 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 7 - Names, Marks and Devices on Certain Containers and Other Articles|§ 59.1-99. Right of appeal; commitment to jail; return and filing of papers

Any person convicted under the provisions of § 59.1-98 shall have the right of appeal from the decision of such court not of record to the circuit, corporation or hustings court, and shall, unless let to bail, be committed to jail, until next term of such court of record, and the witnesses shall be recognized to appear at the same time. The judge of the court not of record shall return and file all of the papers in each case with the clerk of the court of record.Code 1950, § 59-196; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-100 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 7 - Names, Marks and Devices on Certain Containers and Other Articles|§ 59.1-100. Trial on appeal

The appeal shall be tried without formal pleadings in writing, and the accused shall be entitled to trial by jury in the same manner as if he had been indicted for the offense in such court.Code 1950, § 59-197; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-101 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 7 - Names, Marks and Devices on Certain Containers and Other Articles|§ 59.1-101. Requiring or accepting deposit upon property not deemed a sale thereof

The requiring, taking or accepting of any deposit, for any purpose, upon any bottle, siphon, siphon head, crate, tin, keg, freezer, can, spoon, block, mould, tray, pan, brick, pail, tub, refrigerator box, cutlery, glass, china, chair, table, sign or clean laundered or soiled article mentioned in this chapter shall not be deemed or constitute a sale of such property, either optional or otherwise in any proceeding under this chapter.Code 1950, § 59-198; 1958, c. 579; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-102 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 7 - Names, Marks and Devices on Certain Containers and Other Articles|§ 59.1-102. Records; previous filing and publishing of names, marks, etc.

The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall deliver the records of his office relating to names, marks and devices on such property as is mentioned in § 59.1-94 to the State Corporation Commission. No person who has filed prior to July 1, 1948, in the proper offices, a description of the name or names, marks or devices upon such property and has caused the same to be published according to the law existing at the time of such filing and publication, shall be required to again file and publish such description to be entitled to the benefits of this chapter.Code 1950, § 59-199; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-103 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-103. Persons engaged in lumbering or rafting on certain waters may adopt mark of designation

It shall be lawful for any person at any time engaged in lumbering or rafting in any manner upon the Elizabeth River in the Commonwealth of Virginia, or on any of its tributaries, or in the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal or in the Dismal Swamp Canal or in any river or creek lying within the boundaries of this Commonwealth and connecting with either of such canals or upon the Chesapeake Bay, to adopt a mark of designation wherewith to stamp or mark all sawlogs, piles, hewn timber or square timber put or intended to be put by him in any of such streams to be floated and rafted on the same. Such mark may be either in letters, figures, words, names or other devices at the discretion of the person adopting it.A statement of the mark so adopted with a certificate appended that the same has been adopted as the mark of designation aforesaid, signed by the person adopting the same, shall be furnished to the clerk of the circuit court of the county or corporation court of the city where such person is doing business and has his principal office.No person shall be entitled to adopt more than one of any of the respective kinds of marks or stamps aforesaid as his mark of designation, but any such person shall not be prohibited from using any other mark in addition to such mark of designation for distinguishing different kinds or lots of timber obtained from different localities, if it does not interfere with the mark of designation of any other person.Code 1950, § 59-200; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-105 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-105. Certificate as evidence of right to use marks

Any certificate of such mark of designation shall be prima facie evidence of the right of the person filing the same to use the mark or marks mentioned therein.Code 1950, § 59-202; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-106 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-106. Sale of unclaimed timber, etc., found adrift; disposition of proceeds

Any person, except the owner thereof, taking up and securing any sawlog, pile, hewn timber or square timber detached from any raft and found adrift or aground on any of the waters or streams mentioned in § 59.1-103, shall promptly report such fact to the owner thereof, or shall lodge a list containing a description of the quantity, quality, and marks, if any, of such timber with a magistrate serving the jurisdiction where such timber was so found and secured, which magistrate shall promptly advertise the same for five consecutive days in a newspaper published in the City of Norfolk. If such timber shall not be claimed by the owner thereof within thirty days after such publication it shall be lawful for the magistrate to order the sale thereof at public auction by an officer after giving five days' notice of the time, place, and terms of such sale by not less than six handbills posted in the most public places in the vicinity where the same was found and within the county wherein the magistrate serves. Out of the proceeds of such sale the magistrate, after paying the expenses of the advertisement and handbills, together with all the other costs of such proceeding at law, shall pay to the person or persons who found and secured the timber ten cents for each piece thereof so taken and secured, and the residue of such proceeds of sale shall be paid into the state treasury for the benefit of the Commonwealth.Code 1950, § 59-203; 1968, c. 439; 2008, cc. 551, 691.
VA Code § 59.1-107 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-107. Fraudulent use of mark or claim of ownership; defacement of mark, etc.; destruction or conversion of timber, etc.

If any person shall fraudulently or willfully use any such registered mark, or shall fraudulently claim to be the owner of any such marked sawlog, pile, square or hewn timber found or being in any of the aforesaid streams or waters, whether floating or aground or tied up to any wharf or other object, either as part of a raft or not, or shall take and carry away any such marked sawlog, pile or piece of square or hewn timber without the authority of the owner thereof, or shall willfully deface or obliterate any such mark, name, figure, letter, or other designation thereon, or shall fraudulently saw, split, consume, destroy, or injure any such marked sawlog, pile, square or hewn timber or shall without the consent of the owner thereof sell or convert the same to his own use unless it shall have been duly forfeited according to the provisions of this chapter or according to other provisions of law, he shall for every such offense upon conviction be confined in jail not less than sixty days and not exceeding twelve months.Code 1950, § 59-204; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-108 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-108. Who are timber dealers

Every person, firm or corporation dealing in logs or timber in any form to be floated on the streams of this Commonwealth shall be called and known as timber dealers, and as such may adopt a brand or trademark in the manner and with the effect hereinafter provided.Code 1950, § 59-205; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-109 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-109. Timber dealer may adopt brand or trademark; recordation

Every such dealer desiring to adopt a brand or trademark who has not heretofore adopted one may do so by the execution and acknowledgement, as deeds are required to be acknowledged, of a writing substantially in form and effect as follows:"Notice is hereby given that I (or we or the undersigned company, as the case may be) have (or has) adopted the following brand or trademark to be used in my (or our or its) business as a timber dealer (or dealers, as the case may be), to wit: (Here insert the word, letter or letters, or figures, or device or devices adopted.)"Given under my (or our or its) hand and seal this......… day of .........., two thousand..................................................….......................................................................(Seal.)"Such writing may be proved as deeds are proved in this Commonwealth and shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the principal office or place of business of such timber dealer may be and of such other counties as such dealer may do business in. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any person who has heretofore used any particular brand from adopting the same as his trademark, and when he shall have adopted it as his trademark as provided in this section it shall apply to the trees and timber heretofore marked with such brand as well as to such as may be hereafter so marked.Code 1950, § 59-206; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-110 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-110. Using recorded brand or trademark without authority

Every brand or trademark so adopted shall, from the date of its recordation be the exclusive brand or trademark of the person, firm or corporation adopting it, and any other person, firm or corporation knowingly using or attempting to use the same, without authority in writing from the owner thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined for each offense in so using the same not less than $20 nor more than $200, and shall be liable to the owner of such brand or trademark for all the damages sustained by such owner by reason of such unauthorized use.Code 1950, § 59-207; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-111 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-111. Unauthorized use of dealer's branding iron, or defacing, etc., marks made by it

Every timber dealer may have a branding iron or hammer with which to impress such brand or trademark on a log, tree or other timber; and any person who shall use such branding iron or hammer or have or use one of like form and making the same brand or trademark, or who shall intentionally and without authority in writing remove, deface, or obliterate or destroy such brand or trademark when once impressed or placed on a log, tree or other timber shall be guilty of a felony, and for each offense shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than three years.Code 1950, § 59-208; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-112 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-112. Fraudulently impressing brand on timber

If any person shall knowingly or fraudulently impress or place such brand or trademark on any log, tree or other timber not his own he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined for each offense not less than $10 nor more than $100 and confined in jail not less than ten nor more than twenty days.Code 1950, § 59-209; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-113 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-113. Effect of impressing brand on tree, etc.

The placing or impressing such brand or trademark on a log, tree or other marketable timber shall be deemed to be a change of ownership and possession.Code 1950, § 59-210; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-114 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-114. Unlawful cutting down, possessing or converting branded timber

Any person who shall cut down a tree or shall knowingly have in his possession a log or other timber that has been so branded, without the written consent of its owner, and claiming it as his own, or who shall convert it to his own use or offer to sell same, shall be guilty of a felony and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than two years for each offense, unless the defendant in such case show a bona fide adverse claim or color of title to the timber or logs in question obtained before such branding.Code 1950, § 59-211; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-115 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 8 - Timber Brands|§ 59.1-115. Sheriff's sale of unbranded timber; recovery by owner; disposition of proceeds

Every person who shall take, catch, hold or have in his possession any log or other marketable timber, not branded as aforesaid, without the written consent of the owner thereof, shall within ten days after catching, taking up, or getting possession of the same, as aforesaid, report the same in writing to the county clerk of the county in which such person resides, and thirty days after such report is received the sheriff of such county shall sell the same publicly at the courthouse door on the first day of a circuit court in the county, of which notice shall be given by the sheriff for at least ten days by written or printed notices posted at the front door of such courthouse or near thereto and at one or more public places in the county. Any person owning such log or timber may, however, recover the same, by satisfying the sheriff that he is entitled to it, or by action of detinue, as provided by law. Such sale shall be made for cash, and the proceeds when collected, after paying the expenses of sale, including a fee of twenty-five cents for each log or piece of timber so sold, shall be paid to the treasurer of the county for the benefit of the public schools of the district in which the party reporting the same shall at that time reside. Any person failing to report to such clerk, as aforesaid, or to turn over the log or other timber to the sheriff, or any sheriff failing or refusing to advertise and sell such log or timber, as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each offense.Code 1950, § 59-212; 1968, c. 439.
VA Code § 59.1-116.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Secondhand Articles|§ 59.1-116.1. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:"Authorized scrap metal purchaser" has the same meaning as provided for the term "scrap metal purchaser" in § 59.1-136.1."Authorized scrap seller" means any licensed plumber, electrical contractor, HVAC contractor, or building and construction contractor."Building material" means any secondhand heating or plumbing fixture or supplies, electric fixtures, or any wiring, gas fixtures or appliances, water faucets, pipes, locks, or any other secondhand fixtures of any kind or description used in the construction of a building."Junk dealer" means a person who regularly engages in the business of purchasing, acquiring, or canvassing secondhand building material, including all nonferrous scrap metal, proprietary articles, or both, for the purpose of resale and has conducted transactions involving, or has offered for sale, more than 600 pounds combined weight of secondhand building material or enters into more than 26 combined transactions annually. "Junk dealer" does not include a "scrap metal purchaser" as defined in § 59.1-136.1."Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, or other private commercial entity."Regularly engaged" with respect to purchasing or acquiring secondhand building material means having conducted transactions involving, or having offered for sale, more than 600 pounds combined weight of secondhand building material or enters into more than 26 combined transactions annually.2011, c. 836; 2013, c. 414.
VA Code § 59.1-117 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Secondhand Articles|§ 59.1-117. Permit required for trading in secondhand building fixtures

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall offer for sale or acquire any secondhand heating or plumbing fixtures or supplies, electric fixtures or any wiring, gas fixtures or appliances, water faucets, pipes, locks, bathtubs, gutters, downspouts, or other secondhand fixtures of whatever kind or description pertaining to a building or structure, without first obtaining a permit for the sale or acquisition of the same from the chief of police of the city or town or the sheriff of the county in which such property is offered for sale or acquisition.Code 1950, § 59-145; 1968, c. 439; 2010, c. 805; 2011, c. 836; 2013, c. 414.
VA Code § 59.1-118 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Secondhand Articles|§ 59.1-118. Permit issued by chief of police or sheriff; revocation

The chief of police of a city or the sheriff of a county may issue, to persons regularly engaged in the business of collecting secondhand building materials for resale, a semiannual or annual permit covering all sales and acquisitions made by such persons. The chief of police or sheriff may refuse to issue a permit, and may revoke any permit issued, to any person convicted of a felony or crime of moral turpitude within the three years prior to the request for the permit. The applicant shall file with the chief of police or sheriff, or his designee, an application form that shall include the applicant's full name, address, age, sex, and fingerprints; the name, address, and telephone number of the applicant's employer, if any; and the location of the applicant's place of business. A permit shall be valid for one year from the date of issuance and may be renewed in the same manner as such permit was initially obtained. A fee of not more than $50 may be charged annually for the issuance of the permit.Code 1950, § 59-146; 1968, c. 439; 2011, c. 836.
VA Code § 59.1-119 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Secondhand Articles|§ 59.1-119. Who deemed a dealer

Every person who is regularly engaged in the purchasing or acquiring of secondhand building material of the kind mentioned in § 59.1-117 for the purpose of resale or installation on the property of another shall be deemed a dealer within the meaning of the provisions of this article.Code 1950, § 59-147; 1968, c. 439; 2011, c. 836.
VA Code § 59.1-119.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Virginia|Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce|Chapter 9 - Secondhand Articles|§ 59.1-119.1. Dealer required to show permit and identification

Every dealer making a sale or purchase of a secondhand fixture pursuant to the provisions of this article shall first display the permit required by § 59.1-117 and also display positive photo identification to the purchaser or seller of such fixture.1992, c. 25.