CHAPTER 387

An Act to amend Article 6 of Chapter 6 of Title 59 of the Code of Vir-
ginia by adding to such Article sections numbered 59-114.1, 59-114.2,
and 59-114.8, relating to livestock auction markets, so as to require
certain weighing apparatus; to prescribe, with exceptions, sale
weights in certain sales; to provide for and require certain hours of
sale; to amend and reenact § 3-588 of the Code of Virginia relating,
in certain respects, to livestock auction markets, so as to increase the
minimum and maximum bonds required of livestock auction markets;
and to amend and reenact § 59-114 of the Code relating to adoption of
the provisions of Article 6 of Chapter 6, Title 59, so as to provide how
and in what respects the Article as amended shall apply to livestock
auction markets.

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Approved April 1, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding sections numbered
59-114.1, 59-114.2, and 59-114.3, as follows:

§ 59-114.1. A type registering weightbeam or an automatic weight
recorder shall be installed and used for weighing livestock sold by weight
at all livestock auction markets employing a weighmaster appointed by
the Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration.

§ 59-114.2. When livestock is offered for sale on a weight basis at
livestock auction markets on regular sale days, the weights thereof shall
be determined on the date of the sale at such auction market, unless other-
wise publicly announced at the auction ring at time of sale.

§ 59-114.8. The operator of the livestock auction market shall pub-
licly announce the day and hour at which an auction sale of livestock is
to begin at least one week in advance of the day of sale so chosen and shall
enclude the time of sale in all information thereafter published concerning
the sae. Auction sales of livestock shall begin on the day and hour so
selected.

2. That §§ 3-538 and 59-114 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 3-538. Fee and bond to accompany license.—Applications shall be
accompanied by a license fee of ten dollars, and a good and sufficient
bond in the sum of three thousand dollars for all applications other than
for livestock auction markets, in which case the application, together
with the fee above required, shall be accompanied by a good and sufficient
bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, when the average daily gross
commission business is five thousand dollars or less, with one thousand
dollars added to the bond for each additional five thousand dollars average
daily gross commission business done for the previous year with a maxi-
mum bond of ten thousand dollars for all applications other than for live-
stock auction markets, in which case the maximum bond shall be ten
thousand dollars, which entitles the applicant to a license to expire on
December thirty-first, next following.

§ 59-114. Adoption of provisions as to weighmasters.—The pro-
visions of * §§ 59-107 through 59-111 with reference to weighmasters
shall not become applicable to any livestock auction market until the
governing body of the county in which such market is situated shall by
affirmative recorded vote declare such provisions operative in the county,
and the provisions shall not become applicable to any livestock auction
market within any incorporated city entirely surrounded by a single
county, until the governing body of the county shall declare by affirma-
tive recorded vote that the provisions shall be operative as to the livestock
auction markets in such adjacent city.

3. The provisions of the sections added and amended hereby shall be-
come effective January one, nineteen hundred fifty-three.
4, Section 59-112 of the Code of Virginia is repealed.