3.2-5000 - Sale of farm machinery or equipment where serial number has been removed, defaced or obliterated; penalty. - Virginia Statutes

§ 3.2-5000. Sale of farm machinery or equipment where serial number has beenremoved, defaced or obliterated; penalty.

A. It is unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale in theCommonwealth any new agricultural implement, farm tractor, or other type offarm machinery or equipment, knowing that the manufacturer's original serialnumber has been removed, defaced, or in any way obliterated. Any person whoviolates this subsection is guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. A personconvicted of a second or subsequent offense under this subsection is guiltyof a Class 1 misdemeanor.

B. The dealer in farm equipment who possesses for sale any farm implement ormachinery that has had its serial number removed, defaced, or in any wayobliterated, shall have his supplier stamp, attach or scribe, as wasoriginally done, the same serial number as was placed upon the machine orimplement at the time of its manufacture. Nothing contained in this sectionshall be construed to prevent any manufacturer or importer, or his agents,other than dealers, from doing his own numbering on agricultural implements,farm tractors, or other types of farm machinery or equipment, or parts,removed or changed, and replacing the numbered parts.

(Code 1950, § 3-707; 1952, c. 672; 1966, c. 702, § 13.1-918; 2008, c. 860.)