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Papers must publish fair-housing notices

The following links will help you search Virginia laws affecting newspapers. Please remember that VPA provides these links for information purposes only. If you have specific questions, please consult your publication's attorney.
The Code of Virginia
Searchable Database (updated July 1, 2006)

The Virginia Administrative Code
Searchable Database (through 18:24 Va.R. February 10, 2003)

Selected subjects

Federal Overtime Rules Summary (from Minnesota Newspaper Association)

Prohibited activities at polls

Advertising former price of goods or services, comparison prices, terms

Motor Vehicle Advertising Regulations

Legal notices
        State Police Unclaimed Property Sales
        Sale of Abandoned Property by State Treasurer
        Nonjudicial sale of tax-deliquent real property
        Certain tax exemptions for non-profit entities
        Sanitary Districts
        Sex Offender Registry
        Deeds of trust
        Newspapers which may be used for legal notices
        Download a Word Document of the Legal Notice Requirements under the Code of Virginia

Political Ads

Stamping

Advertising Lotteries Seals & Logos

        Games of Chance & Advertising

Inadvertent Advertising Error

Regulated Advertising Practices

Sales Tax Exemptions

False Information & Advertising

False Publications

Telephone Regulations

Telephone Privacy Protection Act

Defendant's Introduction of Evidence in Libel Suits

Tobacco Advertising

Employee or Independent Contractor?

Adver tising of Pay-per-call Telephone Numbers

Weights & Measures (use of word "cord")
 
 


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