Chap. 95.—An ACT to require certain cold storage warehouses to keep daily
records of temperatures, such records to be open for inspection by interested
parties; to provide for the inspection of such warehouses and recor’ by the
department of agriculture; and to prescribe penalties. | H B 60}

Approved March 4, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That on
and after September first, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, every
individual, firm, corporation or association engaged in the business
of maintaining and operating cold storage warehouses in which apples
or other perishable fruits are stored for hire or compensation, shall
keep, or cause to be kept careful and accurate daily records of the
temperatures existing in each room or division of such warehouses;
such records for any period to be open and accessible at all times for
inspection by any person having or having had apples or other perish-
able fruit in said warehouses during the said period.

Any person maintaining and operating any such cold storage ware-
house who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished
by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dol-
lars for each offense. .

2. Every such cold storage warehouse shall be subject to inspec .
tion at any time by any authorized agent of the department of agri-
culture, which agent shall have the right to examine the records pro-
vided for herein; and said agent shall report to the storage after each
and every inspection.
Any individual, firm, corporation or association maintaining and
operating any such storage warehouse, or any other person who shall
make or cause or permit to be made, any alterations or false entries
on the records provided for herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than |
fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.