Chap. 63.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of an act entitled
“An act defining cold storage and cold storage warehouses, and regulat-
ing the storage of articles of food, and providing penalties for the
violation of the provisions of this act, and providing an appropriation
for carrying out the requirements of the act,” approved September 9,
1919, so as to regulate the sale of cold storage goods by public or
private, or combined public and private, cold storage warehousemen,
and wholesale and retail dealers, and operators of hotels, restaurants,
and public eating places. [H B 67]

Approved March 21, 1923.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
section eight of an act entitled “An act defining cold storage
and cold storage warehouses, and regulating the storage of
articles of food, and providing penalties for the violation of the
provisions of this act, and providing an appropriation for carry-
ing out the requirements of the act,” approved September ninth,
nineteen hundred and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Sec. 8. Signs to be displayed: notice to purchasers; what
advertising unlawful.—It shall be unlawful for any public or
private, or combined public and private, cold storage ware-
housemen, or any wholesale or retail dealer in food, or any
operator of any hotel, restaurant, or public eating place, to sell,
or to offer or expose for sale, articles of food as herein defined
which have been held in any cold storage warehouse for a period
of thirty days or over without notifying persons purchasing or
intending to purchase the same that they have been so kept, by
the display of a placard conspicuously marked “cold storage
goods,” on the bulk mass or articles of food; provided, that in
the case of hotels, restaurants, and public eating places, the re-
quired notice may appear on the bill of fare or menu card, in the
form of a statement that “All cold storage products served here
are marked *” and in such event every cold storage product ap-
pearing on the bill of fare or menu card must be preceded by an
asterisk (*). It shall be unlawful to represent or advertise as
fresh, articles of food which have been held in any cold storage
warehouse for a period of thirty days or over.