CHAPTER 74

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 3-359.1
authorizing the State Milk Commission to prescribe accounting systems
for distributors of milk and milk products, to require the use of such
accounting systems by such distributors, and provide for inspection
and audit thereof to prohibit certain acts and to impose penalties for
violation.

[SB 44]

Approved February 21, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
3-359.1 as follows:

§ 3-359.1. The State Milk Commission is authorized and directed
to prepare and promulgate a system of accounting designed to show for
each distributor of milk and milk products, under the supervision of the
Commission, the total purchases by any such distributor of each grade of
milk; the total sales by each such distributor and the revenue therefrom,
for each grade or class of milk and the quantity thereof. Such accounting
system shall be so designed as to show not only total purchases but the
respective grades of milk bought as well as total sales and the respective.
classes or grades of milk sold.

Upon the promulgation of any such system of accounting by the State
Milk Commission each distributor of milk and milk products under the
supervision of the Commission shall adopt and use such system of account-
ing. The books and records of each such distributor shall be open to in-
spection by the Commission or its agents during regular business hours,
and shall be audited by it at such regular intervals as shall be prescribed
by the State Milk Commission.

It shall be unlawful for any distributor to pay for milk upon any such
basis of grade or class lower than that upon which such milk is sold or used
by him. Nothing herein shall prevent the sale of a grade or class of milk by
a distributor as milk of a lower grade or class. Any such distributor vio-
lating any provision of this section or failing or refusing to use the system
of accounting herein prescribed or refusing to allow the same to be in-
spected or audited shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
be punished as provided by law. Each day of violation shall constitute a
separate offense and be punishable as such.