CHAPTER 672

An Act to prohibit the selling or offering for sale of any agricultural
implements, farm tractors, farm machinery or equipment, the origi-
nal serial number of which has been destroyed, removed, altered,
covered or defaced, and providing a penalty for violation ater e

Approved April 4, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. Any person who shall knowingly sell or offer for sale in this state
any new and unused agricultural implement, farm tractor, or other type
of farm machinery or equipment, which is identified by a serial number
placed thereon by the manufacturer, knowing that the original serial
number of which has been removed, defaced, or in any way obliterated,
shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than thirty nor
more than one hundred eighty days, either or both, and upon a second or
subsequent conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment and fine. The
dealer in farm equipment who possesses for sale any farm implement or
machinery which has had its serial number removed, defaced, or in any
way obliterated, shall have his supplier stamp, attach or scribe, as was
originally done, the same serial number as was placed upon the machine
or implement at the time of its manufacture. Nothing contained in this
section shall be construed to prevent any manufacturer or importer, or his
agents, other than dealers, from doing his own numbering on agricultural
implements, farm tractors, or other types of farm machinery or equipment,
or parts, removed or changed, and replacing the numbered parts. The
provisions of this act shall apply only to agricultural implements, farm
tractors, or other types of farm machinery or equipment which are sold
after the effective date of this act.