Code of Virginia - Title 3.1 Agriculture, Horticulture And Food - Section 3.1-988 (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Requesting false weighing or false weight certificate; issuanc...

§ 3.1-988. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Requesting false weighing or false weight certificate; issuanc...

Any person who requests a licensed public weighmaster to weigh any property, produce, commodity, or article falsely or incorrectly, or who requests a false or incorrect weight certificate, or any person who issues a weight certificate simulating the weight certificate prescribed in this chapter and who is not a licensed public weighmaster, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction for the first offense shall be punished by a fine in any sum not less than $50 nor more than $100; and upon a second or subsequent conviction such person shall be punished by a fine in any sum not less than $100 or more than $500 or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days or more than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Code 1950, § 3-709.19; 1962, c. 126; 1966, c. 702.)

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