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If the serial numbers or other distinguishing numbers or identification marks shall have been erased, defaced, removed, altered or covered, such invoice shall so state. 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The record of this law\u2019s original creation isn\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 1968, chapter 439.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":1490205,"object_type":"law","relational_id":372691,"identifier":"59.1-133","token":"59.1\/9\/3\/59.1-133","url":"\/59.1-133\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/59.1-133\/","token":"59.1\/9\/3\/59.1-133","dublin_core":{"Title":"Invoice to be furnished to purchaser","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 59.1-133","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling watches, or any agent or servant thereof, who may sell a secondhand watch or in any other way pass title thereto shall deliver to the vendee a written invoice bearing the words “secondhand watch” in bold letters, larger than any of the other written matter upon such invoice. Such invoice shall further set forth the name and address of the vendor, the name and address of the vendee, the date of the sale, the name of the watch or its maker, and the serial numbers (if any), and any other distinguishing numbers or identification marks upon its case and movements. If the serial numbers or other distinguishing numbers or identification marks shall have been erased, defaced, removed, altered or covered, such invoice shall so state. The vendor shall keep on file a duplicate of such invoice for at least five years from the date of the sale thereof, which shall be open to inspection during all business hours by the law<\/span>-enforcement officers of the county or city in which the vendor is engaged in business.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nINVOICE TO BE FURNISHED TO PURCHASER (\u00a7 59.1-133)\n\nAny person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged in the\nbusiness of buying or selling watches, or any agent or servant thereof, who may\nsell a secondhand watch or in any other way pass title thereto shall deliver to\nthe vendee a written invoice bearing the words “secondhand watch” in\nbold letters, larger than any of the other written matter upon such invoice.\nSuch invoice shall further set forth the name and address of the vendor, the\nname and address of the vendee, the date of the sale, the name of the watch or\nits maker, and the serial numbers (if any), and any other distinguishing numbers\nor identification marks upon its case and movements. If the serial numbers or\nother distinguishing numbers or identification marks shall have been erased,\ndefaced, removed, altered or covered, such invoice shall so state. The vendor\nshall keep on file a duplicate of such invoice for at least five years from the\ndate of the sale thereof, which shall be open to inspection during all business\nhours by the law-enforcement officers of the county or city in which the vendor\nis engaged in business.\n\nHISTORY: Code 1950, \u00a7 59-158; 1968, c. 439.","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"}}