Chap. 222.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 1240 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to the sale of Commercial feeding stuff. {S 232)

Approved March 13, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section twelve hundred forty of the Code of Virginia
be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 1240. What is a violation of this chapter; penalty.—
Any manufacturer, importer, jobber, agent, dealer, or distributor
who shall sell, offer, or expose for sale or distribution in this State
any concentrated commercial feeding stuff, without having
attached thereto or furnished therewith such tax stamps, labels, or
tags, as is required by the preceding section, or who shall use such
stamps, labels, or tags a second time to avoid the payment of the
tonnage tax, or who shall counterfeit or use a counterfeit of such
tax stamps, labels, or tags, or who shall sell, offer or expose for sale,
or distribution in this State any concentrated commercial feeding
stuff, without complying with the requirements of this chapter, or
which may contain substantially a smaller percentage of crude
protein, or crude fat, or a larger percentage of crude fiber, than it is
certified to contain, or who shall mix or adulterate any feeding
stuff with foreign mineral or other substances, such as rice chaff,
hulls, cotton seed hulls, buckwheat hulls, peanut shells, corn cob,
oat hulls, weed seeds, elevator chaff, screening refuse, flax plant
refuse, or similar materials of little or no feeding value, or with
substances injurious to the health of domestic animals, shall be
guilty of a violation of the provisions of this chapter, and, in addi-
tion to fine prescribed in section twelve hundred and thirty, the
lot of feeding mixed and adulterated, as aforesaid, shall be subject
to seizure, condemnation or sale by the circuit or corporation court,
as the case may be, the proceeds from such sales to be deposited in
the State treasury. The court, however, may, in its discretion,
release the feeding stuff so withdrawn when the requirements of
this chapter have been complied with, and upon payment of all
costs and expenses incurred by the State in any proceedings con-
nected with such seizure and withdrawal.