It shall be lawful for any person at any time engaged in lumbering or rafting in any manner upon the Elizabeth River in the Commonwealth of Virginia, or on any of its tributaries, or in the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal or in the Dismal Swamp Canal or in any river or creek lying within the boundaries of this Commonwealth and connecting with either of such canals or upon the Chesapeake Bay, to adopt a mark of designation wherewith to stamp or mark all sawlogs, piles, hewn timber or square timber put or intended to be put by him in any of such streams to be floated and rafted on the same. Such mark may be either in letters, figures, words, names or other devices at the discretion of the person adopting it.
A statement of the mark so adopted with a certificate appended that the same has been adopted as the mark of designation aforesaid, signed by the person adopting the same, shall be furnished to the clerk of the circuit court of the county or corporation court of the city where such person is doing business and has his principal office.
No person shall be entitled to adopt more than one of any of the respective kinds of marks or stamps aforesaid as his mark of designation, but any such person shall not be prohibited from using any other mark in addition to such mark of designation for distinguishing different kinds or lots of timber obtained from different localities, if it does not interfere with the mark of designation of any other person.
Code 1950, § 59-200; 1968, c. 439.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce
§ 59.1-103. Persons engaged in lumbering or rafting on certain waters may adopt mark of designation
§ 59.1-105. Certificate as evidence of right to use marks
§ 59.1-106. Sale of unclaimed timber, etc., found adrift; disposition of proceeds
§ 59.1-108. Who are timber dealers
§ 59.1-109. Timber dealer may adopt brand or trademark; recordation
§ 59.1-110. Using recorded brand or trademark without authority
§ 59.1-111. Unauthorized use of dealer's branding iron, or defacing, etc., marks made by it
§ 59.1-112. Fraudulently impressing brand on timber
§ 59.1-113. Effect of impressing brand on tree, etc.
§ 59.1-114. Unlawful cutting down, possessing or converting branded timber
§ 59.1-115. Sheriff's sale of unbranded timber; recovery by owner; disposition of proceeds