Chap. 436.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 182 of the tax Code of
Virginia, in relation to junk dealers, and to add a new section to said tax
Code, to be designated as section 182-a, in relation to dealers in second
hand paper. [S B 248]

Approved March 26, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
one hundred and eighty-two of the tax Code of Virginia be amended
and re-enacted, and that there be a new section added to said tax Code,
to be designated as section one hundred and eighty-two-a, all of which
shall read as follows:

Section 182. Junk dealers, canvassers, and so forth—No keeper
of a shop, for the purpose herein mentioned, or master of a vessel,
or other person, shall, without a license authorized by law, purchase,
sell, barter, or exchange any kind of second-hand articles, junk, rags,
rag cullings, bones, bottles, puer, scrap, metals, metal drosses, steel,
iron, old lead pipe, old bathroom fixtures, old rubber, old rubber ar-
ticles, or other like commodities, except paper, and except furniture,
clothes, shoes and stoves intended to be resold for use as such, and any
person dealing in such commodities shall be deemed a junk dealer.
The hustings or corporation court of any city, and the circuit court of
any county, may grant a license to any citizen of the United States who
shall produce to it satisfactory evidence of his good character to carry
on the business of a junk dealer, which license shall designate the
premises on which said person shall exercise or carry on said business ;
and no person shall exercise or carry on the business of a junk dealer
without being duly licensed, nor in any other premises than the one des-
ignated in said license, except by the consent of the court which granted
the license, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each day he shall
exercise or carry on said business without such license, or in any other
premises than the one so designated, except by the consent of the court
aforesaid. The place at which such business may be conducted shall
be kept open for the purchase or sale of any of the articles mentioned
aforesaid. Nor shall any purchase be made by such person, or by
any other person or persons for him, except between the hours of sun-
rise and sunset; and such place of business shall be open at all times
to the inspection of any revenue or police officer of the county or city
wherein the license issued. Every person receiving such license shall
place over the principal entrance of his place of business a sign desig-
nating that he is a licensed junk dealer.

No person shall canvass for the purpose of buying any junk or
other like commodity enumerated above in this section, for any such
junk dealer, or for sale to such junk dealer, or to any other person un-
less such person be authorized so to do, in writing, by some junk dealer
licensed and appointing him under this section. Every such junk deal-
er, desiring to appoint such canvassers, shall take out a license for each
canvasser he shall wish to appoint, provided that no person shall be
appointed as such canvasser unless he be a citizen of the United States
and obtains a certificate of good character from such judge. Such
canvassers’ license shall be issued in the name of the dealer applying
therefor, and the commissioner of revenue shall furnish with each can-
vasser’s license two tin signs, numbered in duplicate, with the ain:
words thereon, namely: “Licensed junk canvasser numbet............. ......
and said signs are to be firmly and conspicuously fixed by such can-
vasser to each side of his vehicle, when using the same in canvassing.
Canvassers so appointed shall be permitted to canvass anywhere in this
State. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall pay a
fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars
for each offense.

Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to operate to
prevent any person, firm, or corporation keeping or operating a foundry
or machine shop from exchanging his new castings for old ones, or
from buying any old metals or old machines for use in his business or
to be renovated and sold; but nothing herein contained shall authorize
any such person, firm or corporation operating a foundry or machine
shop to buy any old metals or old machines and sell them again in the
same condition as they were when purchased. ,

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any regularly
licensed merchant in the country, or in towns having a population of
two thousand or less, from buying or trading for rags, old iron, or
other articles or junk, unless there be a regular licensed junk dealer
within three miles of his place of business, such merchant to be subject
at all times to the same conditions of inspection as a regular junk
dealer.

Every junk dealer and every merchant and foundryman who deals
in junk, old metals, and so forth, shall keep at his place of business,
and every canvasser shall carry and keep with him a book in which
shall be fairly written in English, at the time of each transaction in the
course of his business, an accurate account of such transaction except
as to the purchase of rags, bones, old iron, and paper, setting forth a
description of the goods, articles, or anything purchased, the time of
receiving the same, the name and residence of the person selling or
delivering the same, the terms and conditions of purchase or receipt
thereof, and all other facts and circumstances respecting such purchase
or receipt; which said book or books shall, at all times, be subject to
the inspection of the judges of the criminal courts, the chief of police,
the captains and sergeants of the police of the city, town or county
wherein such business is being conducted, or any or either of them,
sergeant and sheriff of such city, town or county, or other officer with
police jurisdiction.

This section shall not apply to articles bought without the State of
Virginia.

It shall be the duty of every junk dealer, and canvasser and every
such merchant and foundryman, to admit to his premises at any time
any officer mentioned above, to examine any books or other record on
the premises, or in his possession as well as the articles purchased or
received ; and to search for and take into possession any article known
by him to be missing, or known or believed by him to be stolen, with-
out the formality of search warrant or any other process, which search
or seizure is hereby authorized. Every junk dealer and canvasser
shall be liable to all the penalties herein provided for violation of any
of the provisions of this section, whether such violation be committed
by himself or by his agent, clerk or employee.

Every junk dealer shall pay for the privileges of transacting busi-
ness the sum of fifty dollars, and for the privilege of doing business at
other premises than that designated in the license the sum of twenty-
five dollars, and for the privilege of appointing canvassers for the pur-
pose of buying any junk or other matter or things for any such junk
dealer, or for sale to a junk dealer, the sum of thirty dollars for each
canvasser appointed and licensed, as well as the cost of the tin signs
furnished such canvasser.

Every license issued under this section shall expire on the thirty-
first day of December each year. No license issued under this section
shall be prorated. (Tax bill, sections sixty-nine and seventy; nine-
teen hundred and six, page five hundred and thirty-seven; nineteen
hundred and fifteen, page two hundred and thirty-two.)

Section 182-a. No person shall, without a license authorized by
law, either as junk dealer or paper dealer purchase, sell, barter, ex-
change, or otherwise deal in second-hand paper, and all the require-
ments restrictions, and provisions of the preceding section, concerning
junk dealers, including the provision for securing license, shall apply
in like manner to dealers in second-hand paper.

Every dealer in second-hand paper shall pay for the privilege of
transacting business as such, the sum of fifty dollars, and for the
privilege of doing business at other places than that designated in the
license, the sum of twenty-five dollars, and for the privilege of ap-
pointing canvassers for the purpose of buying second-hand paper for
any such dealer, or for sale to such a dealer, the sum of thirty dollars
for each canvasser appointed and licensed, as well as the cost of the
tin signs furnished such canvassers. Every license issued under this
section shall expire on the thirty-first day of December each year. No
license 1ssued under this section shall be prorated.