§ 3.2-4721 Investigation of transactions by Commissioner
The Commissioner, upon the verified complaint of any interested party shall, or upon his own motion may, investigate:
1. Any transaction involving solicitation, receipt, sale, or attempted sale of farm products by any person acting or attempting to act as a commission merchant;
2. The failure of any commission merchant to make proper and true account of sales and settlement as required in this article;
3. Any transaction in which produce consigned to a commission merchant is disposed of to a person composed substantially of the same persons as stockholders, members, or others, who compose the commission merchant;
4. The intentional making of false statements by a commission merchant as to condition, grade, or quality of any farm products received or in storage;
5. The intentional making of false statements by a commission merchant as to market condition;
6. The failure of any commission merchant to make payment for farm products within the time required by this article; or
7. Any other injurious transaction arising out of the sale of farm produce on commission.
History
The record of this law’s original creation isn’t available online. The oldest record of it is its appearance in the Code of Virginia of 1950, as § 3-544. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1966, chapter 702; in 2008, chapter 860.
Code 1950, § 3-544; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-702; 2008, c. 860.