Chap. 18.—An ACT to prevent fraud and deception in the storage and
sale of oleomargarine, process and renovated butter; regulating the
storage and sale of such products; defining violations of the act, and
fixing penalties therefor. (H. B. 24.)

Approved February 9, 1916.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
for the prevention of fraud and deception in the storage and
sale of oleomargarine, process or renovated butter, it shall be
unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, either by them-
selves or by any officer, agent, servant or employe, to sell, ship,
‘consign, offer for sale, expose for sale, or have in possession
with intent to sell or store or keep along with any goods or
merchandise intended for sale or any materials entering into
foods intended for sale any oleomargarine, process or renovated
butter, unless tne same shall be kept and presented in a manner
and form separate and distinct from pure butter and in such
manner and form as will clearly show its real character; and
unless such person, firm or corporation shall in all other re-
spects comply with the provisions of this act.

2. Hotels, restaurants, licensed boarding houses and all
other places of public entertainment, storing, using, selling,
offering for sale, or serving oleomargarine, process or renovated
butter shali first display signs in conspicuous places in their
stores, factories, dining rcoms, lunch rooms, et cetera, which
signs must bear the words printed in black letters, one inch
square on a white back ground reading as follows (in the case
of oleomargarine or substitutes for pure butter): ‘We sell oleo-
margarine here,” ‘We serve oleomargarine here;” or (in the
case of process or renovated butter): “We sell process (or
renovated) butter here,” ‘We serve process (or renovated)
butter here.” The sign herein provided for shall contain the
words specified and no others.

3. Manufacturers, dealers or agents selling, exposing or
offering for sale oleomargarine or substitutes for pure butter,
or process or renovated butter, shall first display signs in con-
spicuous places, and as directed by the dairy and food com-
missioner, or his agents, or assistants, in their storehouses and
sales rooms bearing the following words, and no others, printed
in blacx letters one inch square on a white back ground (as the
case may be): “We sell oleomargarine here,” “We sell pro-
cess (or renovated) butter here,” and each tub, box, container
and package of oleomargarine or process or renovated butter
shall ve plainly marked with the net weight of the contents of
the package and the word “oleomargarine’”’ or “process (or ren-
ovated) butter,” as the case may be, to clearly indicate that
the product is oleomargarine or process (or renovated) butter,
and where sales of oleomargarine, process butter, or renovated
butter are made by retail from bulk, the container or wrapper
in which the product is delivered to the purchaser shall be
painly marked with the net weight of the contents of the pack-
age and the word “oleomargarine” or “process (or renovated)
butter,’’ as the case may be.

4. Any person, firm or corporation, who shall violate any
of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and
for such offense shall be fined not exceeding two hundred dol-
lars. The dairy and food commissioner is hereby charged with
the enforcement of the provisions of this act.