Chap. 105.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 30, as heretofore amended,
of an act entitled, ‘““An act concerning weights and measures, and to re-
peal Sections 1464 to 1470, both inclusive, and Sections 1472 to 1485, both
inclusive, of the Code of Virginia”, approved March 14, 1924, in relation
to appointment of inspectors of weights and measures. [fH B 258]

Approved March 12, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
thirty, as heretofore amended, of an act entitled an act concerning
weights and measures, and to repeal sections fourteen hundred and
sixty-four to fourteen hundred and seventy, both inclusive, and sections
fourteen hundred and seventy-two to fourteen hundred and eighty-five,
both inclusive, of the Code of Virginia, approved March fourteenth,
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be amended and re-enacted so as
to read as follows:

Section 30. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration,
as ex-officio superintendent of weights and measures, shall, in addition
to the powers hereinbefore conferred upon him, have, throughout the
Commonwealth, all the powers and authority of a sealer of weights
and measures. Furthermore, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner
of Agriculture and Immigration to appoint, as inspectors of weights
and measures, such of the employees of his office as he may deem
necessary for the better and more efficient enforcement of this act,
and such employees, when so designated by the Commissioner of Agri-
culture and Immigration, shall throughout the limits of the Common-
wealth, have all the powers and authority conferred upon a sealer of
weights and measures by this act, and the State superintendent and
sealer of weights and measures shall be guided in the performance of
their duties by the department of commerce, bureau of standards,
manual of inspection and information for weights and measure officials ;
provided, that the State mine inspector shall be the inspector of weights
and measures for all coal mines where coal produced therefrom shall
be weighed or measured.