CHAPTER 696

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-513 and 8-524 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to apples and the Virginia State Apple Commission, and
relating specifically to definitions and certain penalties, rear e aoe

Approved April 7, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 3-518 and 3-524 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 3-513. Definitions.—As used in this article:

(1) The word “Commission” shall mean the Virginia State Apple
Commission.

(2) The word “person” shall mean and include individuals, corpora-
tions, partnerships, trusts, associations, cooperatives, and any and all other
business units, devices and arrangements.

(3) The word “packer” shall mean any person who first packs fresh
apples in a closed package for shipment or sale; provided, however, that
‘the first two hundred bushels of apples so packed by any person in any one
crop season shall be exempt from the provisions of this article. The word
“packer” does not include any grower or other person who puts fresh
apples in a container and places the top on it for delivery to a packing
house or packing establishment for grading and subsequent packing in a
closed package for shipment or sale; in every such case the packer ts the
person who grades such apples and packs them in a closed package for
shipment or sale.

(4) The word “bushel” shall mean a package with a content of not
less than two thousand one hundred forty cubic inches nor more than two
thousand five hundred cubic inches.

(5) The word “barrel’’ shall mean the United States standard barrel
containing approximately three bushels.

§ 3-524. Penalty for false reports or records, or for failing to keep
records.—It shall be a misdemeanor for any packer knowingly to report
falsely to the Commission the quantity of apples packed by him during
any period, or to falsify the records of the apples packed by him, or to
fail to keep a complete record of the apples packed by him, or to preserve
such record for a period of not less than two years from the time such
apples are packed.