If any person shall fraudulently or willfully use any such registered mark, or shall fraudulently claim to be the owner of any such marked sawlog, pile, square or hewn timber found or being in any of the aforesaid streams or waters, whether floating or aground or tied up to any wharf or other object, either as part of a raft or not, or shall take and carry away any such marked sawlog, pile or piece of square or hewn timber without the authority of the owner thereof, or shall willfully deface or obliterate any such mark, name, figure, letter, or other designation thereon, or shall fraudulently saw, split, consume, destroy, or injure any such marked sawlog, pile, square or hewn timber or shall without the consent of the owner thereof sell or convert the same to his own use unless it shall have been duly forfeited according to the provisions of this chapter or according to other provisions of law, he shall for every such offense upon conviction be confined in jail not less than sixty days and not exceeding twelve months.
Code 1950, § 59-204; 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