59.1-125 - When unlawful to buy or accept. - Virginia Statutes

§ 59.1-125. When unlawful to buy or accept.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to barter, purchase,exchange, buy or accept from any person whomsoever, except plumbers, theowner of buildings from which the material is taken, railroad, coal mining,industrial, manufacturing and public utility companies, or the authorizedagents of such companies, lawful owners and junk dealers, licensed in thisCommonwealth, any secondhand steel, copper, copper wire, aluminum, aluminumwire, brass, brass bearings or fittings, electric light or gas fixtures,locks or other builders hardware, plumbing fixtures, bell or bell fixtures,lead or brass water pipes or any part of such fixtures or pipes, or any wire,cable, lead, solder, copper, iron or brass used by or belonging to arailroad, telephone, telegraph, coal mining, industrial, manufacturing orpublic utility company; provided that this section shall not apply to anyperson, firm or corporation which shall barter, purchase, exchange, buy oraccept any secondhand grooved or figure-eight copper trolley wire, bare orinsulated heavy stranded copper or aluminum feeder wire, high voltage copperor aluminum transmission wire, or bare or insulated mining machine coppercables, but § 59.1-128 shall be applicable thereto.

(Code 1950, § 59-153; 1958, c. 614; 1968, c. 439.)