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 | 1912 |
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Law Number | 71 |
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Law Body
CHAP. 71.—An ACT to prevent deception in the sale of ice cream and to
establish standards for the same, defining condensed milk and pro-
viding for its sale.
Approved February 29, 1912.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the following standards be, and they are hereby, adopted for
ice cream and for condensed milk offered or exposed for sale
in Virginia, namely:
Ice Cream.
1: Ice cream is a frozen product made from fresh cream
and sugar, with or without a natural flavoring and contains not
less than eight (8) per centum of milk fat.
2. Fruit ice cream is a frozen product made from cream,
sugar and sound, clean, mature fruits, and contains not less than
eight (8) per centum of milk fat.
3. Nut ice cream is a frozen product made from cream, sugar
and sound, non-rancid nuts, and contains not less than eight
(8) per centum of milk fat.
4. In the manufacture of ice cream the use of a small amount
of gelatine not exceeding four ounces to ten gallons of cream
is permitted, together with sugar and eggs, and such coloring
matter as permitted under the national pure food laws.
5. Condensed milk, evaporated milk, is milk from which a
considerable portion of water has been evaporated and should
contain such percentage of milk solids including fat that the
sum of the two shall be not less than thirty-four and three-
tenths (34.3), and the percentage of fat shall be not less than
seven and eight-tenths (7.8) per centum. It should contain
no added butter or butter oil incorporated either with whole
milk or skimmed milk or with the evaporated milk at any stage
of manufacture.
6. Sweetened condensed milk is milk from which a consid-
erable portion of water has been evaporated and to which sugar
(sucrose) has been added, and contains not less than twenty-
eight (28) per centum of milk solids, of which not less than
twenty-seven and five-tenths (27.5) per centum is milk fat.
7. Condensed skimmed milk is skim milk from which a con-
siderable portion of water has been evaporated.
8. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
offer or expose for sale any ice cream, condensed milk or con-
densed skimmed milk which does not meet the standards fixed
above for the article or articles manufactured, exposed or o1-
fered for sale as ice cream or condense. milk.
Provided, when ice cream is made in whole or 1n part trom
condensed milk, or condensed skimmed milk, the said proauct
may be sold, provideu the container in which said product 1s
packed is plainly marked “made with condensed (skimmed)
milk.”
9. Every manufacturer, retail dealer, confectioner, hotel pro-
prietor, licensed boarding house, restaurant, lunch counter or
other places of public entertainment selling, serving or offering
for sale ice cream made in whole or in part from condensed
milk or condensed skimmed milk, shall display a sign in a con-
spicuous place in their factory, store or dining-room where it
may be readily read, printed in black letters (‘““Roman” type),
one inch square on a white background reading: “We sell or
serve ice cream made with condensed milk,” or “we sell or serve
ice cream made with condensed skimmed milk.”
10. No person, firm or corporation, proprietor of any hotel,
licensed boarding house, restaurant or other place of public
entertainment shall sell, offer or expose for sale condensed milk,
or condensed skimmed milk, or condensed whole or skimmed
milk powder without first displaying a sign in a conspicuous
place in their factory, store or place in which the same may be
offered for sale, reading: ‘‘We sell condensed (skimmed) milk
here” or ‘‘we serve condensed (skimmed) milk here.”
10-a. Whenever condensed skimmed milk 1s offered or ex-
posed for sale in this state, each can or container shall be
plainly and clearly marked in letters of appropriate size, ‘‘con-
densed skimmed milk.”
11. That any manufacturer, company, person or persons who
shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and for such offense shall be fined for the first
offense not more than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars, and for each
subsequent offense not exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars
and such fine, less legal costs and charges, shall be paid into the
treasury of the State.
_ 12. The dairy and food commissioner, his deputy and as-
sistants, is hereby charged with the enforcement of the provi-
sions of this act.