Chap. 327.—An ACT to provide that certain classifications of eggs sold or offered
or advertised for sale shall have certain defined characteristics; to provide how
such characteristics may be determined; to prohibit the sale of certain kinds of
eggs; to provide how certain kinds of eggs shall be marked; to prescribe
penalties; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act.

(S B 234]
Approved March 27, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. Section 1. (a) When used in connection with selling, offer-
ing for sale or advertising eggs for sale, the terms fresh, strictly fresh,
hennery, new-laid or descriptions of similar import shall be applied only
to eggs with air cells not over one-fourth of an inch deep, localized
and regular; whites firm and clear; yolks allowed to be visible; and no
visible germ development. These characteristics are required of all eggs
marked, sold, offered for sale or advertised for sale as being fresh, strict-
ly fresh, hennery, new-laid or descriptions of similar import.

‘(b) Determination of these qualities in eggs shall be by candling or
by breaking out.

‘Section 2. Producers selling their own eggs direct to household
users, restaurants, hotels, retail stores, bakeries; or other institutions
purchasing eggs for serving to guests, patrons, ‘employees or inmates
are exempt from this law, provided all eggs are of edible quality and of
the quality as represented.

Section 3. Eggs moving into private or cooperative packing plants
(frst receivers) where they will be candled and graded need not be
marked.

Section 4. The sale of inedible eggs as defined under section eleven
hundred eighty-one of the Code, or incubated eggs, is prohibited except
that incubated eggs may be sold for commercial purposes other than for
human consumption provided such incubated eggs are broken and de-
natured on the premises where incubated in a manner approved by the
Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration.

Section 5. All eggs shall be marked according to official grades
used by the Division of Markets of the Virginia Department of Agricul-
ture and Immigration, or marked “storage”, “stored’’, “unclassified”, or
“ungraded”.

Section 6. Any person, or any firm, or corporation which by itself
or its agents or employees who knowingly or by reason of gross negli-
gence violates any provision of this act or any regulation made here-
under, or fails to comply with any of the requirements hereof or know-
ingly misrepresents the condition, size, or quality of any eggs, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor.

2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the pro-
visions of this i act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsisten-
cies.