CHAPTER 509

AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a new section numbered
59-140.1, relating to weights and measures, and to provide a penalty
for violation, and the right of review in a court of competent juris-

diction.
[S 266]
Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
59-140.1 as follows:
_ _ § 59-140.1. Whenever it appears to the Commissioner that there is a
violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter, he may, in his discretion,
issue and enforce a written or printed stop-sale, stop-use or stop-removal
order against any owner or custodian of any commodities, weights, meas-
ures, or weighing and measuring devices which are being used, sold, offered
or exposed for sale, or involved in any manner in connection with such viola-
tion, and may further, in his discretion, seize and impound any of such
commodities, weights, measures, or weighing and measuring devices until
the Commissioner is satisfied that such violation has ceased and that the
owner or custodian thereof is in all respects complying with the provisions
of this Chapter.

_ Any owner or custodian of any commodities, weights, measures, or
weighing and measuring devices who shall sell, or offer for sale, or other-
wise dispose of, or attempt to dispose of any such articles while subject to a
stop-sale, stop-use or stop-removal order, or while seized and impounded,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Any owner or custodian of any of the articles mentioned in this section
who feels aggrieved by any action of the Commissioner hereunder shall have
the right to apply to any trial justice of the county or civil justice of the
city wherein the property involved is located for a review of the action
taken by the Commissioner. Such application may be heard by such court
after not less than twenty-one days’ notice served upon the Commissioner.