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 coin 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 machine, or other machines, designed only to receive lawful coin of the United States of America, without depositing in or surrendering to such coin box telephone, parking meter, vending machine, or other machine lawful coin of the United States of America to the amount required by the owner, lessee, or licensee of such coin box telephone, parking meter, vending machine, or other machine, shall be punished pursuant to § 132.99.
(1998 Code, § 38-82) Penalty, see § 132.99
Statutory reference:
Similar provisions, see VA Code § 18.2-179