Chap. 131.—An ACT to provide for certain maximum and minimum charges and
fees which may be imposed by public warehouses operated for the sale of burley
tobacco, and to prescribe penalties for violations. [S B 53}

Approved March 9, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia :

1. No person, firm, association, corporation, partnership, co-part-
nership, or other legal entity, who or which operates any warehouse in
which burley tobacco is sold at public auction, shall charge or receive
any commission in excess of three per centum of the sales price of such
tobacco, nor shall any basket charge be in excess of twenty-five cents per
basket, which commission and basket charge shall constitute the entire
amount charged by the warehouse operator in connection with such sale;
provided, however, that on or before the opening day of the market in
any year, the warehouse operator may elect to charge a commission of
not exceeding seventy-five cents per hundred pounds which commission
shall constitute the entire charge made in connection with the sale of
tobacco throughout that market season at the warehouse for which such
election is made.

Any such operator of a warehouse violating the provisions of this
act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined
not more than one hundred dollars, and in addition may be imprisoned
for not exceeding one month, and each sale in violation of this act shall
be deemed a separate offense. For a second offense the fine shall be
not more than five hundred dollars, and the offender may be imprisoned
for not to exceed two months, and for any subsequent offense the fine
shall be not more than one thousand dollars and the offender may be
imprisoned for not to exceed one year.