Every timber dealer may have a branding iron or hammer with which to impress such brand or trademark on a log, tree or other timber; and any person who shall use such branding iron or hammer or have or use one of like form and making the same brand or trademark, or who shall intentionally and without authority in writing remove, deface, or obliterate or destroy such brand or trademark when once impressed or placed on a log, tree or other timber shall be guilty of a felony, and for each offense shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than three years.
Code 1950, § 59-208; 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