CODE OF VIRGINIA

REGULATION OF SALE OF ANIMALS PROCURED FROM ANIMAL SHELTERS (§ 3.2-6545)

Any locality that maintains or supports, in whole or in part, a public or
private animal shelter may by ordinance provide that no person who acquires an
animal from such shelter shall be able to sell the animal within a period of six
months from the time the animal is acquired from the shelter. Violation of the
ordinance is a Class 1 misdemeanor.

HISTORY: 1972, c. 347, § 15.1-517.1; 1997, c. 587, § 3.1-796.94:2; 2008, c.
860; 2014, c. 148.