49-6 - Oath or affidavit required of purchaser of fuel, etc. - Virginia Statutes

§ 49-6. Oath or affidavit required of purchaser of fuel, etc.

Whenever the purchaser of any fuel, provisions or other thing, whether oflike kind with fuel and provisions or not, is required to make oath oraffidavit as to the quantity or value of such fuel, provisions or other thingthen in the possession of such purchaser, or to make any other oath oraffidavit in relation thereto before he is allowed to purchase the same, suchoath or affidavit may be administered by the seller with like effect, andwith the same penalties for false swearing, as if the same had beenadministered by a magistrate.

(1918, p. 266; Michie Code 1942, § 275a; 2008, cc. 551, 691.)