CHAPTER 560

An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-409 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to altering newspapers which have been put into circulation, and
circulation, distribution and sale of such newspapers; and providing
penalties for violations.

[H 628]

Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.1-409 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

18.1-409. No person, without first obtaining the consent of the
publisher so to do, shall affix to, or place or insert in, or print, stamp or
impress upon any newspaper or any part thereof, after the same shall have
been issued for circulation by the publisher thereof, any word, figure,
design, picture, emblem or advertisement with intent to cause, or which
when so affized, placed, inserted, printed, stamped or impressed may cause.
the public to believe that such word, figure, design, picture, emblem 01
advertisement was affixed, placed, printed, inserted, stamped or impressed
a ane upon such newspaper by the publisher of the same as a part

ereof.

No person shall knowingly circulate, distribute or sell, or cause to be
circulated, distributed or sold, any newspaper wpon which has been sc
affixed, placed, inserted, printed, stamped or impressed any word, figure
design, picture, emblem or advertisement in violation of the terms hereof

Any person violating the provisions hereof shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred
dollars nor more than two hundred dollars. Each violation shall constitut«
a separate offense.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.