Chap. 316.—An ACT to define and regulate the sale of used and second-hand
watches, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act. [S B 199]

Approved March 30, 1942

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, as follows:
Section 1. Any person, firm, partnership, association or corpora-
tion engaged in the business of buying or selling watches, or any agent or
servant thereof, who may sell or exchange, or offer for sale or exchange,
expose for sale or exchange, possess with the intent to sell or exchange,
or display with the intent to sell or exchange any second-hand watch, shall
affix and keep affixed to the same a tag with the words “second-hand’’
clearly and legibly written or printed thereon, and the said tag shall be
so placed that the words “second-hand” shall be in plain sight at all times.
Section 2. Any person, firm, partnership, association or corpora-
tion engaged in the business of buying or selling watches, or any agent
or servant thereof, who may sell a second-hand watch or in any other way
pass title thereto shall deliver to the vendee a written invoice bearing the
words “second-hand watch” in bold letters, larger than any of the other
written matter upon said invoice. Said invoice shall further set forth the
name and address of the vendor, the name and address of the vendee,
the date of the sale, the name of the watch or its maker, and the serial
numbers (if any), and any other distinguishing numbers or identification
marks upon its case and movements. If the serial numbers or other dis-
tinguishing numbers or identification marks shall have been erased, de-
faced, removed, altered or covered, said invoice shall so state. The ven-
dor shall keep on file a duplicate of said invoice for at least five years
from the date of the sale thereof, which shall be open to inspection during
all business hours by the law enforcement officers of the county or city
in which the vendor is engaged in business.

Section 3. Any person, firm, partnership, association or corpora-
tion, or any agent or servant thereof, who advertises or displays in any
manner a second-hand watch for sale or exchange shall state clearly in
such advertisement or display that said watch is a second-hand watch.

Section 4. A watch shall be deemed to be second-hand if

(a) As a whole or the case thereof or the movement previously
sold to or acquired by any person who bought or acquired the same for
his use or the use of another, but not for resale; or

(b) Its case serial numbers or movement numbers or other dis-
tinguishing numbers or identification marks shall be erased, defaced, re-
moved, altered or covered.

Section 5. Any person, firm, partnership, association or corpora-
tion, or any agent or servant thereof, who shall violate any of the pro-
visions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished
by a fine not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by
imprisonment not to exceed ninety days, or both. ,

Section 6. The provisions of this act shall not apply to pawn-
broker’s auction sales or unredeemed pledges when public notice of the
fact that watches are re-built or are second-hand is given prior to the
sale.