‘Chap. 409.—An ACT to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising
and making such advertising a misdemeanor, and providing penalties. B61]

Approved March 21, 1924.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That any
person, firm, corporation or association who, with intent to sell or in
anywise dispose of merchandise, securities, service, or anything offered
by such person, firm, corporation or association, directly or indirectly,
to the public for sale or distribution, or with intent to increase the con-
sumption thereof, or to induce the public in any manner to enter into
any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire title thereto, or any interest
therein, makes, publishes, disseminates, circulates, or places before the
public, or causes, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, dissem-
inated, circulated, or placed before the public in this State, in a news-
paper or other publications, or in the form of a book, notice, hand-bill,
poster, blue-print, map, bill, tag, label, circular, pamphlet, or letter,
or In any other way, an advertisement of any sort regarding merchan-
dise, securities, service, land, lot,-or anything so offered to the public,
which advertisement contains any promise, assertion, representation or
statement of fact which is untrue, deceptive, or misleading, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, be punished by
@ fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than two hundred
and fifty dollars, or confined in jail for a period of not less than ten days
nor more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.