Any person, firm, association or corporation who or which intentionally removes, defaces, alters, changes, destroys or obliterates in any manner or way or who causes to be removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed or obliterated in any manner or way any trademark, distinguishment or identification number, serial number or mark on or from any article or device, in order to secrete its identification with intent to defraud, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-214
Changing or removing, etc., trademarks, identification marks, etc
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 573 F. Supp. 2d 103 - Adams v. Martinsville Dupont Credit Union (2008)
Most recently applied in BHR Recovery Cmtys., Inc. v. Top Seek, LLC (November 2018)
Code 1950, § 59.1-42; 1968, c. 439; 1975, cc. 14, 15.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.