61.1-58 - Commingling burley and other tobacco; moving tobacco before sale. - Virginia Statutes

§ 61.1-58. Commingling burley and other tobacco; moving tobacco before sale.

It shall be unlawful for any person to commingle, mix, place in same basketwith other tobacco or in any other manner or means to handle tobacco so as tolose its identity, for the purpose of sale at auction, loose-leaf tobaccogrown by one producer with loose-leaf burley tobacco grown by any otherproducer, or of the same producer after being placed on the loose-leaf floor.

After tobacco is weighed and set upon the warehouse floor for sale no basketof tobacco shall be moved, without the consent of the owner, from its placeon the floor until sale is confirmed by the owner of same. This shall notapply to official inspectors of the Department of Agriculture and ConsumerServices, who in the course of their duties find it necessary to move pilesof tobacco.

(Code 1950, § 61-157; 1950, p. 66; 1968, c. 69.)