CHAPTER 308

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 3-598.1, 3-598.4 and 3-598.6 of the Code
of Virginia, relating to the feeding of garbage to swine.
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Approved March 10, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 3-598.1, 3-598.4 and 3-598.6 of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 3-598.1. “Garbage” shall mean all putrescible animal, poultry and
vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and
pasunption of foods containing animal or poultry carcasses or parts

ereof.

“Raw garbage” shall mean all garbage which may contain animal or
poultry carcasses or parts thereof regardless of previous processing, which
before being fed to swine, has not been heated or otherwise treated so as
to destroy the contagion of vesicular disease.

“Cooked garbage” shall mean all garbage which may contain animal
or poultry carcasses or parts thereof regardless of previous processing
which before being fed to swine, has been thoroughly heated to at least
two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit for at least thirty minutes. *

“Person” shall mean any person, firm, partnership, corporation, in-
stitution or agency of the State of Virginia, or of any county, city, or town.
The term shall not apply to persons feeding domestic household garbage
originating on the premises where fed * .

§ 3-598.4. Application for such permit shall be made annually to the
Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration in writing on forms to be
furnished by the Commissioner. Such application shall set forth the name
of the applicant, whether a person, firm, partnership, association, corpo-
ration or other entity; the address of the applicant, the location of the
garbage feeding operation for which the permit is sought; a brief descrip-
tion and location of the facilities for the treatment of garbage and such
other information as the Commissioner may require.

The application shall be accompanied by a fee of * twenty-five dollars
in the case of any person feeding not more than twenty-five swine at any
given time, fifty dollars in the case of any person feeding not less than
twenty-six nor more than fifty swine at any given time, and one hundred
dollars in the case of any person feeding fifty-one or more swine at any
given time. The fees collected are hereby appropriated to the Board of
Agriculture and Immigration for the purpose of enforcing this article and
the regulations authorized herein.

§ 3-598.6. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this article
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not
less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. Each
day upon which such violation occurs shall constitute a separate offense.
In addition to the penalties herein provided, such person may be enjoined
from continuing such violation.

Furthermore, the Commissioner shall forthwith revoke, and not there-
after reissue during the period of one year, the license of any person, upon
receiving a record of his second conviction within any twelve months period
of any offense or offenses otherwise punishable under this article.