CHAPTER 528

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-827 and 8-828 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to place where food or drink products are handled, the sec-
tions, respectively relating to notice and warning to place premises in
sanitary condition and to the penalty for failure to obey such notice
and warning.

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Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 3-827 and 3-328 of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-
enacted as follows:
3-327. Whenever it is determined by the Commissioner, or assist-
ants, that filthy or unsanitary conditions exist or are permitted to exist
in the operation of any bakery, confectionery, or ice cream plant, or at
any place where any food or drink products are manufactured, stored or
deposited, or sold for any purpose whatever, the proprietor or pro-
prietors, owner or owners of such bakery, confectionery or ice cream plant,
or any person or persons owning or operating any plant where any food
or drink products are manufactured, stored, deposited or sold, shall be
first notified and warned by the Commissioner, or his assistants, to place
such bakery, confectionery, or ice cream plant, or any place where any
food or drink products are manufactured, stored, deposited or sold, in a
sanitary condition within a reasonable length of time. After the first
notice and warning of a violation has been issued, no notice and warning
of the same violation occurring within ninety days after the first notice
and warning has been given as provided under § 3-328 shall be required;
provided that notice and warning shall be required as to any violation
occurring more than ninety days after notice and warning has been given
as to a violation.

§ 8-328. Any person owning or operating any bakery, confectionery
or ice cream plant, or any place where any food or drink products are
manufactured, stored, deposited or sold, failing to obey such notice and
warning, or permitting filthy or unsanitary conditions to exist after a
notice of previous violation has been issued, provided the violation occurred
within ninety days after notice and warning has been issued, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.