Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling watches, or any agent or servant thereof, who may sell or exchange, or offer for sale or exchange, expose for sale or exchange, possess with the intent to sell or exchange, or display with the intent to sell or exchange any secondhand watch, shall affix and keep affixed to the same a tag with the words "secondhand" clearly and legibly written or printed thereon, and the tag shall be so placed that the words "secondhand" shall be in plain sight at all times.
Code 1950, § 59-157; 1968, c. 439.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 59.1 - Trade and Commerce
Chapter 9 - Secondhand Articles
§ 59.1-117. Permit required for trading in secondhand building fixtures
§ 59.1-118. Permit issued by chief of police or sheriff; revocation
§ 59.1-119. Who deemed a dealer
§ 59.1-119.1. Dealer required to show permit and identification
§ 59.1-120. Recordkeeping requirements
§ 59.1-121. Reports to be made to chief of police or sheriff
§ 59.1-122. Books and places of business open to inspection
§ 59.1-123. Exemptions from article
§ 59.1-124. Penalty for violation
§ 59.1-125. When unlawful to buy
§ 59.1-126. Receipt or bill of sale to be taken by buyer; sales procedures
§ 59.1-127. Violation of § 59.1-125 or § 59.1-126 a misdemeanor; revocation of dealer's license
§ 59.1-128. When unlawful to buy, exchange, etc., secondhand copper or aluminum wire
§ 59.1-129. Requirements when articles mentioned in § 59.1-128 are bought, exchanged, etc.
§ 59.1-130. Punishment for violation of § 59.1-128 or § 59.1-129
§ 59.1-131. When watch deemed secondhand
§ 59.1-132. Tag to be affixed to watch
§ 59.1-133. Invoice to be furnished to purchaser
§ 59.1-134. Advertisement or display
§ 59.1-135. Penalty for violation
§ 59.1-136. Pawnbrokers' auction sales exempted
§ 59.1-136.2. Purchases of ferrous scrap
§ 59.1-136.3. Purchases of nonferrous scrap, metal articles, and proprietary articles
§ 59.1-136.4. Purchases of materials from minors
§ 59.1-136.5. Reports of purchases by scrap metal purchasers