HB 248

            
2020 SESSION

20100821D

HOUSE BILL NO. 248


Offered January 8, 2020


Prefiled December 30, 2019

A BILL to amend and reenact � 3.2-4114 of the Code of Virginia 
 and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 15.2 
 a section numbered 15.2-926.5, relating to industrial hemp product; green cross 
 symbol; signage.
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Patron-- Lindsey

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Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
 
 
1. That � 3.2-4114 of the Code of Virginia is amended and 
 reenacted and that the Code of Virginia is amended by adding in Article 1 of 
 Chapter 9 of Title 15.2 a section numbered 15.2-926.5 as follows:
 
 
� 3.2-4114. Regulations.
 
 
A. The 
 Board may adopt regulations pursuant to this chapter as necessary to register 
 persons to grow, deal in, or process industrial hemp or implement the 
 provisions of this chapter.
 
 
B. The Board may 
 adopt regulations pursuant to this chapter to restrict the display 
 on exterior signage of the symbol of a green cross with arms of equal length by 
 any business that sells hemp products.
 
 
� 15.2-926.5. Local 
 regulation of signage displaying green cross symbol.
 
 
Any locality may by 
 ordinance restrict the display on 
 exterior signage of the symbol of a 
 green cross with arms of equal length by any business that 
 sells hemp products as defined in � 3.2-4112.