25. Taxicab and towing businesses performing locksmith services that do not represent themselves to the general public as locksmiths.
Code of Virginia 9.1-138 Definitions:
“Locksmith” means any individual that performs locksmith services, or advertises or represents to the general public that the individual is a locksmith even if the specific term locksmith is substituted with any other term by which a reasonable person could construe that the individual possesses special skills relating to locks or locking devices, including use of the words lock technician, lockman, safe technician, safeman, boxman, unlocking technician, lock installer, lock opener, physical security technician or similar descriptions.
Would it not seem that a reasonable person that called some one who advertised cars opened or by any other term would have special skills such as a locksmith, even if they showed up in a taxi or tow truck? The definition of locksmith in my view and apparently in the opinion of both the Virginia Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court is none specific and vague. Opinion by Justice Barbara Milano Keenan April 17, 2009
