West Virginia Code § 61-3-49a

Unlawful sale of used, secondhand, rebuilt, repossessed, etc., watches
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and clocks; penalty; revocation of license to sell.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, association or copartnership, either
foreign or domestic, to display, barter, sell, offer or expose for sale, any clock or watch or
other instrument or contrivance by which the progress of time is perceived or measured, or
which instrument or contrivance is intended for such use, and which has beefore been used,
rebuilt, repossessed, reconstructed or reconditioned, without at all times having the same
marked by label plainly written or printed in the English language, andr attached thereto,
with the words thereon, "used," "secondhand," "rebuilt," "repossessed," "reconstructed" or
"reconditioned," as the case may be.
Any person, firm, corporation, association or copartnership, tforeign or domestic, who or
which shall violate the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and, upon conviction thereof, shall, for the first offense, be fined not less than $25 nor more
than $100; and for a second offense shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $250, and
in addition thereto, the owner, manager or acting agent of the seller shall be imprisoned in
the county jail not less than ten nor more thans sixty days; and upon conviction for a third or
subsequent offense, shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500, and in addition
thereto the owner, manager or acting agent of the seller shall be confined in the county jail
not less than thirty days nor more thgan six months, at the discretion of the court, and upon
conviction for such third or subsequent offense, in addition to the penalty herein provided,
the license of the offender for ethe sale of merchandise shall be revoked and shall not be
renewed for the period of six months from the date of such third conviction, and then only
upon the offender execuLting bond with approved security in the sum of $1,000, conditioned
that he or it will not violate the provisions of this section.

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