8.01-498 - Selling officers and employees not to bid or to purchase. - Virginia Statutes

§ 8.01-498. Selling officers and employees not to bid or to purchase.

No officer of any city, town, county or constitutional officer or employee ofany such city, town, county or constitutional office shall, directly orindirectly, bid on or purchase effects sold under a writ by such officer.Anyone violating this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, § 8-427; 1975, c. 84; 1977, c. 617; 1988, c. 674.)