District of Columbia Code
Title 36 - Trade Practices
Chapter 1 - Registration of Beverage Bottles

Subchapter I - General

§ 36–101. Filing and publication of bottle description - All manufacturers and vendors of mineral waters and other beverages...

§ 36–102. Unauthorized use or sale of registered bottles - It shall be unlawful for any person, without the permission...

Subchapter II - Registration of Milk Containers

§ 36–121. Filing and publication of container description - All persons, firms, partnerships, or corporations engaged in the bottling,...

§ 36–122. Unauthorized use or sale of registered bottles - Whoever shall by himself or his agent fill, use, sell,...

§ 36–123. Defacing or destroying registered containers - Whoever shall by himself or his agent willfully deface, erase,...

§ 36–124. Refusal to surrender to registrant a registered container prima facie evidence of unlawful use - In any prosecution under this subchapter, the refusal of any...

§ 36–125. Proceeding in Superior Court to ascertain violations; search warrant - Whenever any person who has registered milk bottles, cans, crates,...

§ 36–126. Title to registered mark to be acquired only by written consent of registrant - No title may be acquired to any mark, name, or...

§ 36–127. Rights of former registrants preserved - All persons who prior to July 3, 1926, registered any...

§ 36–128. “Person” defined - Whenever the word “person” is used in this subchapter, it...

§ 36–129. Type of containers to which law is applicable - The provisions of this subchapter shall apply to all bottles,...

§ 36–130. Prosecutions; penalties - The violation of any of the provisions of this subchapter...

§ 36–131. Injunctive relief - Whenever any person who has registered milk bottles, cans, crates,...

Subchapter III - Registration of Containers for Beverages Composed Principally of Milk

§ 36–151. Definitions - The following words shall, in addition to their ordinary meaning,...

§ 36–152. Filing and publication of vessel description - Persons engaged in producing, manufacturing, bottling, or selling any lawful...

§ 36–153. Unauthorized use, defacing, or sale of registered vessel - Whoever, except the person who shall have filed and published...

§ 36–154. Use or possession of vessel without purchase of contents prima facie evidence of unlawful use - The use or possession by any person not engaged in...

§ 36–155. Proceeding in Superior Court to ascertain violations; search warrant - Upon complaint of any person who has complied with §...

§ 36–156. Recorder of Deeds to make regulations - The Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia is...

§ 36–157. Actions in tort permissible - Nothing in this subchapter shall prevent or restrain any person...