18.2-176 - Unauthorized wearing or displaying on motor vehicles of any button, insignia or emblem of certain associations or societies or of Southern Cross of Honor.
§ 18.2-176. Unauthorized wearing or displaying on motor vehicles of anybutton, insignia or emblem of certain associations or societies or ofSouthern Cross of Honor.
(a) No person shall wear the button or insignia of any order of police, tradeunion or veterans' organization or display upon a motor vehicle the insigniaor emblem of any automobile club, medical society, order of police, tradeunion or veterans' organization or use such button, insignia or emblem toobtain aid or assistance unless entitled to wear, display or use the sameunder the constitution, bylaws, rules or regulations of the organizationconcerned.
(b) No person shall wear any Southern Cross of Honor when not entitled to doso by the regulations under which such Crosses of Honor are given.
(c) A violation of this section shall be a Class 3 misdemeanor.
(Code 1950, § 18.1-410; 1960, c. 358; 1964, c. 124; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)