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Statutes > Virginia > Title-3-2 > Chapter-65 > 3-2-6509§ 3.2-6509. Misrepresentation of animal's condition; penalties.
No person shall misrepresent the physical condition of any animal at theanimal's sale, trade, delivery, or other method of transfer. For the purposeof this section, misrepresentation shall include selling, trading, deliveringor otherwise transferring an animal to another person with the knowledge thatthe animal has an infection, communicable disease, parasitic infestation,abnormality or other physical defect that is not made known to the personreceiving the animal. The sale of an agricultural animal that has external orinternal parasites that are not made known to the person receiving the animalshall not be a violation of this section unless the animal is clinically illor debilitated due to such parasites at the time of sale, trade, delivery ortransfer of the animal. Violation of this section is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
(1984, c. 492, § 29-213.42; 1987, c. 488, § 3.1-796.72; 1998, c. 817; 2008,c. 860.)
