§ 23-35. Fraudulent use of pay phones, parking meters and other coin-operated devices.
Any person who shall operate, cause to be operated, or attempt to operate or cause to be operated any coin box, telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine that operates on the coin-in-the-slot principle, whether of like kind or not, designed only to receive lawful coins of the United States of America, in connection with the use or enjoyment of telephone or telegraph service, parking privileges or any other service, or the sale of merchandise or other property, by means of a slug, or any false, counterfeit, mutilated, sweated or foreign coin, or by any means, method, trick or device whatsoever, not authorized by the owner, lessee or licensee of such coin box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine; or who shall obtain or receive telephone or telegraph service, parking privileges, merchandise or any other service or property from any such coin box telephone, parking meter, vending machines or other machine, designed only to receive lawful coins of the United States of America, without depositing in or surrendering to such coin box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine lawful coins of the United States of America to the amount required therefor by the owner, lessee or licensee of such coin box telephone, parking meter, vending machine or other machine, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
(Code 1965, § 23-13)
Cross reference— License tax for coin-operated machines, and operators thereof, §§ 18-72, 18-73; parking meters, § 21-393 et seq.
State Law reference— Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 18.2-179.
(Code 1965, § 23-13)