Chap. 190.—An ACT to make it unlawful to operate fraudulently any coin-box
telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine that operates on
the coin-in-the-slot principle, or to obtain fraudulently from any such coin-box
telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine the use and en-
joyment of telephone or telegraph service, parking privileges, merchandise or
other service or property, or to manufacture, sell or give away, with intent to
defraud, or knowing the same is intended for any unlawful use, any slug, device
or substance whatsoever, designed and intended for the operation of any such
coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine, and
providing a penalty for its violation; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent herewith. IS B 64]

Approved March 13, 1940

1. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:
Section 1. Any person who shall operate, or cause to be operated,
or who shall attempt to operate, or attempt to cause to be operated,
any coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other
machine that operates on the coin-in-the-slot principle, whether like
kind or not, designed only to receive lawful coin of the United States
of America, in connection with the use or enjoyment of telephone or
telegraph service, parking privileges or any other service, or the sale
of merchandise or other property, by means of a slug, or any false,
counterfeit, mutiliated, sweated or foreign coin, or by any means,
method, trick or device whatsoever, not authorized by the owner,
lessee or licensee of such coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending
machine or other machine; or who shall obtain or receive telephone or
telegraph service, parking privileges, merchandise, or any other ser-
vice or property, from any such coin-box telephone, parking meter,
vending machine or other machine, designed only to receive lawful
coin of the United States of America, without depositing in or sur-
rendering to such coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending ma-
chine, or other machine, lawful coin of the United States of America
to the amount required therefor by the owner, lessee or licensee of
such coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other
machine, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars,
or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding three months, or both, in
the discretion of the court, jury or justice trying the case.

Section 2. Any person who, with intent to cheat or defraud the
owner, lessee, licensee or other person entitled to the contents of any
such coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other
machine operated on the coin-in-the-slot principle, designed only to
receive lawful coin of the United States of America, in connection
with the use of any such coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending
machine or other machine, or who, knowing or having reason to
believe, that the same is intended for such unlawful use, shall manu-
facture, sell, offer to sell, advertise for sale or give away any slug,
device or substance whatsoever, intended or calculated to be placed
or deposited in any such coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending
machine or other machine, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding three
months, or both, in the discretion of the court, jury or justice trying
the case.

Section 3. That the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, advertise-
ment for sale, giving away or possession of any such slug, device or
substance whatsoever, intended or calculated to be placed or de-
posited in any such coin-box telephone, parking meter, vending ma-
chine or other machine that operates on the coin-in-the-slot principle,
shall be prima facie evidence of intent to cheat or defraud within the
meaning of this act.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of
this act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.