CODE OF VIRGINIA

FRAUDULENT USE OF MARK OR CLAIM OF OWNERSHIP; DEFACEMENT OF MARK, ETC.;
DESTRUCTION OR CONVERSION OF TIMBER, ETC (§ 59.1-107)

If any person shall fraudulently or willfully use any such registered mark, or
shall fraudulently claim to be the owner of any such marked sawlog, pile, square
or hewn timber found or being in any of the aforesaid streams or waters, whether
floating or aground or tied up to any wharf or other object, either as part of a
raft or not, or shall take and carry away any such marked sawlog, pile or piece
of square or hewn timber without the authority of the owner thereof, or shall
willfully deface or obliterate any such mark, name, figure, letter, or other
designation thereon, or shall fraudulently saw, split, consume, destroy, or
injure any such marked sawlog, pile, square or hewn timber or shall without the
consent of the owner thereof sell or convert the same to his own use unless it
shall have been duly forfeited according to the provisions of this chapter or
according to other provisions of law, he shall for every such offense upon
conviction be confined in jail not less than sixty days and not exceeding twelve
months.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 59-204; 1968, c. 439.