2014 Virginia Code
Title 18.2 - Crimes and Offenses Generally
§ 18.2-320. Sale, etc., of plastic bags; warning required
(a) No person shall sell, offer for sale, or deliver, or offer for delivery, or give away any plastic bag or partial plastic bag intended to enclose freshly cleaned clothing, the length of which totals twenty-five inches or more and the material of which is less than one mil (1/1000 inch) in thickness; unless such plastic bag bears the following warning statement, or a warning statement which the Commissioner of Health has approved as the equivalent thereof:
"WARNINGavoid danger of suffocation, keep this plastic bag away from babies and children. Do not use this bag in cribs, beds, carriages or playpens."
(b) Such warning statement shall be imprinted in a prominent place on the plastic bag or shall appear on a label securely attached to the bag in a prominent place, and shall be printed in legible type of at least thirty-six point type.
(c) Violators of this section shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Code 1950, ยง 18.1-415.1; 1968, c. 340; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
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