Chap. 287.——-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 4449a of the Code of Vir-
ginia, of 1919, relating to the sale and purchase of second-hand metals.
[S B 298]
Approved March 24, 1930

I. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-four hundred and forty-nineA of the Code of Virginia of nineteen
hundred and nineteen, be amended and re-enacted as follows:

Section 4449A. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons,
firm or corporation to barter, purchase, exchange, buy or accept from
any person whomsoever, except plumbers, the owner or owners of
buildings from which the material is taken, railroad, coal mining, in-
dustrial, manufacturing and public utility companies, or the authorized
agents of such companies, lawful owners and junk dealers, licensed in
this State, any second-hand steel, copper, copper wire, aluminum, alu-
minum wire, brass, brass bearings or fittings, electric light or gas
fixtures, locks or other builders hardware, plumbing fixtures, bell and
bell fixtures, or lead or brass water pipes or any part of such fixtures or
pipes, any wire, cable, lead, solder, copper, iron or brass used by or
belonging to a railroad, telephone, telegraph, coal mining, industrial,
manufacturing or public utility company.

Any person buying any such second-hand articles at private or
public sale shall take from the seller a properly dated written receipt
or bill of sale signed by such seller which shall therein state specifically
seller’s address, business and place of residence. If a seller of such
articles be not personally known to the buyer or if the seller be unable
to write his name, such seller shall produce an adult witness personally
known to the buyer to identify the seller and also to sign said receipt
or bill of sale as witness, the latter also stating therein his full name,
occupation and place of residence, such receipt or bill of sale shall
specifically set forth by accurate description giving the character, kind,
quality, weight, length or size, and other detailed description sufficient
to accurately identify each of said list of articles so purchased and
shall be by the buyer retained at his place of business for a period of
six months after such purchase.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.