CHAPTER 306

AN ACT to amend the Code of 1950 by adding a section num-
bered 59-101.1, prohibiting the use of the word “cord” to
denote other than standard cords in connection with pur-
chases or sales of certain forest products, and regulating
the use of other units of measurement in connection with
such purchases or sales.

[ H 498 ]

Approved April 4, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of 1950 be amended by adding a section
numbered 59-101.1, as follows:

§ 59-101.1. It shall be unlawful to use the word “cord” or
any abbreviation thereof in, or in connection with the purchase
or sale of pulpwood, firewood, tanbark or any forest product
customarily measured in cords of any size whatever, or in, or
in connection with any quotation of price, or measurement of,
or settlement, or payment for any such wood, bark or product,
in reference to any cord, unit or measurement other than the
standard cord as defined in § 59-101; and it shall be unlawful
to use the word “unit” or any abbreviation thereof in, or in
connection with any such purchase, sale, quotation, measure-
ment, settlement or payment unless in each and every instance
in which the word “‘unit’’ or any abbreviation thereof is so used,
such word or abbreviation is immediately followed by a state-
ment of the number of cubic feet contained in such unit, which
statement shall, in the case of such use in printed form, be
printed in boldfaced type of a size larger than the size of type
in which the word “unit” or the abbreviation thereof is printed
and, in the case of such use in typewritten form or in any repro-
duction of typewritten form, be typed in capital letters.