54.1-4012 - Property pawned or purchased not to be disfigured or changed.
§ 54.1-4012. Property pawned or purchased not to be disfigured or changed.
No property received on deposit or pledged or purchased by any pawnbrokershall be disfigured or its identity destroyed or affected in any manner (i)so long as it continues in pawn or in the possession of the pawnbroker whilein pawn or (ii) in an effort to obtain a serial number or other informationfor identification purposes.
(Code 1950, § 54-855; 1988, c. 765; 1998, c. 848; 1999, c. 327; 2003, c. 448.)