CODE OF VIRGINIA

MISREPRESENTATION OF ANIMAL’S CONDITION; PENALTIES (§ 3.2-6509)

No person shall misrepresent the physical condition of any animal at the
animal’s sale, trade, delivery, or other method of transfer. For the
purpose of this section, misrepresentation shall include selling, trading,
delivering or otherwise transferring an animal to another person with the
knowledge that the animal has an infection, communicable disease, parasitic
infestation, abnormality or other physical defect that is not made known to the
person receiving the animal. The sale of an agricultural animal that has
external or internal parasites that are not made known to the person receiving
the animal shall not be a violation of this section unless the animal is
clinically ill or debilitated due to such parasites at the time of sale, trade,
delivery or transfer of the animal. Violation of this section is a Class 3
misdemeanor.

HISTORY: 1984, c. 492, § 29-213.42; 1987, c. 488, § 3.1-796.72; 1998, c. 817;
2008, c. 860.