CHAPTER 501

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto in Title 3 a chapter
numbered 16.1 containing §§ 3-840.1 and 3-340.2, relating to certain
dietary foods and drinks so as to provide that no sugar shall be added
thereto, and to provide penalties for violations. P

[S 280]

Approved April 5, 1954

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto in Title 3
a chapter numbered 16.1 containing §§ 3-340.1 and 3-340.2, as follows:

§ 8-340.1. No person, firm or corporation who manufactures, pre-
pares, sells or offers for sale any food or drink containing any nonnutri-
tive artificial sweetening agent shall add or cause, permit or suffer to be
added thereto any sugar, nor shall any such person, firm or corporation
add or cause, permit or suffer to be added any nonnutritive artificial
sweetening agent to any food or drink containing sugar. This section
shall not be construed to prohibit the addition of any nonnutritive arti-
ficial sweetening agent to any food which in its natural or prepared state
contains residual sugar.

§ 3-340.2. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of
the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdeameanor and on
conviction thereof shall be punished as provided by law. _
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding thereto a section num-
bered 58-784.4, so as to provide for the reassessment of property in
certain counties.

[S 285]

Approved April 5, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding thereto a section
numbered 58-784.4, as follows:

§ 58-784.4. There shall be general reassessment in the years nineteen
hundred fifty-five, nineteen hundred fifty-eight and every six years there-
after, in any county containing less than twenty-one thousand population, in
which a general reassessment was required to be held but was not held
in either nineteen hundred fifty-two or nineteen hundred fifty-three.