CHAPTER 207

AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section num-
bered 3-630.1, providing an optional method for the payment
of certain inspection fees; to authorize the Commissioner of
Agriculture and Immigration to permit persons to use such
methods; to prescribe the procedure therefor; to provide for
revocation of such permission; and to impose certain penalties
for violations.

[H 357]
Approved March 14, 1950
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section

numbered 3-630.1 as follows:
§ 3-630.1. In lieu of affixing or furnishing inspection fee tags
or stamps under § 3-627 any manufacturer, jobber, importer, agent
or seller of any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, may make
application to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration
for a permit to report the tonnage of feeding stuff sold, offered or
exposed for sale or distribution in this State, and pay the inspec-
tion tax of fifteen cents per ton applicable thereto, on the basis of
such report. The Commissioner may, in his discretion, grant such
permit. The issuance of any such permit shall be conditioned upon
the applicant satisfying the Commissioner that he keeps adequate
records to show accurately the tonnage of feeding stuff taxable
hereunder, and the Commissioner shall have the right to examine
such records in order to verify the accuracy of the reports filed
hereunder.

The report of tonnage and inspection fee shall be due and
payable quarterly on the first days of January, April, July and
October, covering tonnage of concentrated commercial feeding
stuffs sold, offered or exposed for sale or distributed in this State
during the preceding months. If any report due hereunder be not
filed and the inspection fee paid by the tenth day following the
due date thereof, or if the report of tonnage is false, the Commis-
sioner may revoke the permit: if the inspection fee remain unpaid
after fifteen days written notice mailed by the Commissioner to
the person who is so delinquent, the amount due shall bear a
penalty of ten per centum which shall be added to the inspection
fee due, and which shall constitute a debt and become the basis
of judgment against such manufacturer, jobber, importer, agent or
seller; provided that sales of commercial feeds to manufacturers
or exchanges between them are hereby exempted from the above
inspection fee if the commercial feeds so sold or exchanged are
segregated and held solely for the manufacture of feed upon which
the above inspection fee will be paid.

2. This section as amended shal become effective on and after
July one, nineteen hundred fifty.