An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1891/1892 |
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Law Number | 204 |
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Law Body
Chap. 204.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1 and 3, of
chapter 71, acts of assembly 1889-'90, to protect the owners of
bottles, boxes, siphons and kegs used in the sale of soda water,
etc.
Approved February 12, 1892.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
sections one and three,of chapter seventy-one,of session acts
of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hun-
dred and ninety, be amended and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:
§ 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That any and all persons and corporations engaged in
manufacturing, bottling, or selling soda waters, mineral
or aerated waters, small beer, lager beer, weiss beer, white
beer, or other beverages, or medicines, medical prepara-
tions, perfumery, compounds, or mixtures, in bottles, si-
phons, tins, or kegs, with his, her, its, or their names or
other marks and devices branded, stamped, engraved,
etched, blown, impressed, or otherwise produced upon
such bottles, siphons, tins, or kegs, or the boxes used by
him, her, it, or them, may file in the clerk’s office of the
county or corporation court of the county or corporation
in which his, her, its, or their principal place of business
is situated, or in the clerk’s office of the chancery court of the
city of Richmond, if said principal place of business is
situated in said city, and also in the office of the secre-
tary of the commonwealth, a description of the name or
names, marks or devices so used by him, her, it, or them,
respectively, and cause such description to be printed
once in each week for three weeks successively in a news-
paper published in the county or corporation in which
said notice may have been filed, as aforesaid; and if there
be no newspaper published in the county or corporation
in which said notice may have been filed, as aforesaid,
then in the newspaper published nearest to that county
or corporation.
§ 3. The use by any person other than the person or
persons, corporation or corporations, whose device, name,
or mark shall be or shall have been upon the same, with-
out such written consent or purchase as aforesaid of any
such marked or distinguished bottle, box, siphon, tin or
keg, when a description of the name, mark, or device,
shall have been filed and published as herein provided,
for the sale therein of soda waters, mineral or aerated
waters, porter, ale, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, beer,
small beer, lager beer, weiss beer, white beer, or beverages,
or of any articles of merchandise, medicine, medical prep-
arations, perfumery, compounds, mixtures, or preparations,
or for the furnishing of such or similar beverages to con-
sumers, or the buying, selling, using, disposing of, or traf-
ficking in any such bottles, boxes, siphons, tins, or kegs,
by any person other than said persons or corporations
having a name, mark, or device thereon, or such owner with-
out such written consent, or the having by any junk dealer
or dealer in second-hand articles, possession of any such
bottles, boxes, siphons, tins, or kegs, a description of the
names, marks, or devices whereon shall have been zo filed
and published as aforesaid without such written consent,
shall, and is hereby, declared to be presumptive evidence
of the said unlawful use, purchase, and trafficking of such
bottles, boxes, siphons, tins, or kegs.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.