Chap. 330.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prevent
untrue, deceptive and misleading advertising and making such advertising
a misdemeanor and providing penalties, approved March 21, 1924. [H B 281]

Approved March 24, 1926.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an
act entitled an act to prevent untrue, deceptive and misleading ad-
vertising and making such advertising a misdemeanor, and providing
penalties, approved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. Any person, firm, corporation or association who,
with intent to sell or in any wise dispose of merchandise, securities,
service, or anything offered by such person, firm, corporation or asso-
ciation, directly or indirectly, to the public for sale or distribution, or
with intent to increase the consumption thereof, or to induce the pub-
lic in any manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to
acquire title thereto, or any interest therein, makes, publishes, dis-
seminates, circulates, or places before the public, or cause, directly
or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated, or
placed before the public in this State, in a newspaper or other publi-
cations, or in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, blue-print,
map, bill, tag, label, circular, pamphlet, or letter, or in any other
way, an advertisement of any sort regarding merchandise, securities,
service, land, lot, or anything so offered to the public, which adver-
tisement contains any promise, assertion, representation or statement
of fact which is untrue, deceptive, or misleading, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of
not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than two hundred and fifty
dollars, or confined in jail for a period of not less than ten days nor
more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The
words “‘untrue, deceptive or misleading,’’ as used in this act shall be
construed as including the advertising in any manner by any person,
of any goods, wares or merchandise as a bankrupt stock, receiver’s
stock, or trustee’s stock, if such stock contains any goods, wares or
merchandise put therein subsequent to the date of the purchase of
such advertiser of such stock.