2006 Code of Virginia § 18.2-233 - Sale of goods marked "sterling" and "sterling silver."

18.2-233. Sale of goods marked "sterling" and "sterling silver.".

A person who makes or sells or offers to sell or dispose of or has in hispossession with intent to sell or dispose of any article of merchandisemarked, stamped or branded with the words "sterling" or "sterlingsilver," or encased or enclosed in any box, package, cover or wrapper, orother thing in or by which such article is packed, enclosed or otherwiseprepared for sale or disposition, having thereon any engraving or printedlabel, stamp, imprint, mark or trademark indicating or denoting by suchmarking, stamping, branding, engraving or printing that such article issilver, sterling silver or solid silver, unless nine hundred and twenty-fiveone-thousandths part of the component parts of the metal of which sucharticle is manufactured is pure silver, shall be guilty of a Class 2misdemeanor.

(Code 1950, 59.1-62; 1968, c. 439; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)