Chap. 257.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 3 of an act entitled an act
to regulate the grading and marking of apples in closed packages; to
authorize the commissioner of agriculture and immigration to establish
and promulgate official standard grades for apples and rules and regulations
governing the marking of the same; to provide for the inspection of apples;
the appointment of inspectors and their compensation; to prohibit violations
of this act and to prescribe penalties therefor, approved April 18, 1927,
as amended by an act approved February 29, 1928. [S B 163]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
three of an act entitled an act to regulate the grading and marking of
apples in closed packages; to authorize the commissioner of agriculture
and immigration to establish and promulgate official standard grades
for apples and rules and regulations governing the marking of the
same; to provide for the inspection of apples; the appointment of in-
spectors and their compensation; to prohibit violations of this act and
to prescribe penalties therefor, approved April eighteenth, nineteen
hundred and twenty-seven, as amended by an act approved February
twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows: 3

Section 3. The commissioner of agriculture and immigration,
through the director of the division of markets, of the State of Virginia.
shall be charged with the enforcement of the provisions of this act
and for that purpose shall have the power:

(a) To enter and inspect personally, or through any authorized
agent, every place within the State of Virginia, where apples are pro-
duced, packed or stored for sale, shipped, delivered for shipment, of-
fered for sale, or sold, and to inspect such places and all apples and
apple containers and equipment found in any such place.

(b) To appoint, superintend, control, and discharge such inspec-
tors and subordinate inspectors as in his discretion may be deemed to
be necessary, for the special purpose of enforcing the terms of this act,
to prescribe their duties and fix their compensation.

(c) Personally, or through any authorized agent or any such in-
spector, to forbid the movement of any closed package or packages of
apples found to be in violation of any of the provisions of this act
which have not been actually accepted by a common carrier for ship-
ment in interstate traffic, and to require the same to be repacked or
remarked. A carload of apples shall not be considered as actually
accepted by a common carrier for shipment until the loading is finished,
the car sealed and the bill of lading issued.

(d) Cause'to be instituted through the Commonwealth’s attorneys
of the State, or otherwise, in any county or city of the State of Vir-
ginia, in which apples are packed, shipped, delivered for shipment, of-
fered for sale, or sold, or may be found, in violation of any of the
provisions of this act, prosecutions for such violations.