CODE OF VIRGINIA

FAILURE TO INDICATE GOODS, ETC., ARE “SECONDS,”
“IRREGULARS,” “SECONDHAND,” ETC (§ 18.2-218)

Any person, firm, corporation or association who in any manner knowingly
advertises or offers for sale to the public any merchandise, goods, commodity or
thing which is defective, blemished, secondhand or used, or which has been
designated by the manufacturer thereof as “seconds,”
“irregulars,” “imperfects,” “not first
class,” or words of similar import without clearly and unequivocally
indicating in the advertisement or offer of the merchandise, goods, commodity or
thing or the articles, units or parts, thereof so advertised or offered for sale
to the public is defective, blemished, secondhand or used or consists of
“seconds,” “irregulars,” “imperfects” or
“not first class,” shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 59.1-46; 1968, c. 439; 1975, cc. 14, 15.