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A copy of the notice shall be sent to the Board and shall be treated as confidential information, except in relation to enforcement proceedings for violation of this section. No increase shall take effect prior to thirty calendar days following the date on which the notice is postmarked. The Board may authorize such price increases to take effect with less than the aforesaid thirty-calendar-day notice if a brewery or beer importer so requests and demonstrates good cause therefor.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1353723,"text":"No brewery or beer importer shall increase the prices charged any wholesale beer licensee for beer except by written notice to the wholesaler signed by an authorized officer or agent of the brewery or beer importer, which notice shall contain the amount and effective date of the increase. A copy of the notice shall be sent to the Board and shall be treated as confidential information, except in relation to enforcement proceedings for violation of this section. No increase shall take effect prior to thirty calendar days following the date on which the notice is postmarked. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 122 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1982 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 1993, chapter 866.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1446389,"object_type":"law","relational_id":363247,"identifier":"4.1-511","token":"4.1\/I\/5\/4.1-511","url":"\/4.1-511\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/4.1-511\/","token":"4.1\/I\/5\/4.1-511","dublin_core":{"Title":"Increase of prices","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 4.1-511","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>No <span class=\"dictionary\">brewery<\/span> or <span class=\"dictionary\">beer<\/span> importer shall increase the prices charged any wholesale <span class=\"dictionary\">beer<\/span> <span class=\"dictionary\">licensee<\/span> for <span class=\"dictionary\">beer<\/span> except by written notice to the wholesaler signed by an authorized officer or agent of the <span class=\"dictionary\">brewery<\/span> or <span class=\"dictionary\">beer<\/span> importer, which notice shall contain the amount and effective date of the increase. 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No\nincrease shall take effect prior to thirty calendar days following the date on\nwhich the notice is postmarked. The Board may authorize such price increases to\ntake effect with less than the aforesaid thirty-calendar-day notice if a brewery\nor beer importer so requests and demonstrates good cause therefor.\n\nHISTORY: 1982, c. 122, \u00a7 4-118.12:1; 1993, c. 866.","edition":{"id":2,"name":"2026","slug":"2026","date_created":"2026-07-16 18:40:23","date_modified":"2026-08-02 15:14:36","current":1,"order_by":2,"last_import":"2026-08-02 12:37:30"}}