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Virginia Statutes, Title 18.2

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Title 18.2, Crimes and Offenses Generally

13 chapters · 884 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 18.2884 Ch 7, Crimes Involving Health and Safety.204 Ch 5, Crimes Against Property.138 Ch 6, Crimes Involving Fraud.129 Ch 8, Crimes Involving Morals and Decency.123 Ch 4, Crimes Against the Person.115 Ch 10, Crimes Against the Administration of…63 Ch 9, Crimes Against Peace and Order.37 Ch 12, Miscellaneous.28 Ch 1, In General.17 Ch 11, Offenses Against the Sovereignty of …13 Ch 3, Inchoate Offenses.8 Ch 13, Virginia Racketeer Influenced and Co…6 Ch 2, Principals and Accessories.3

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Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-197 Criminally receiving goods and services fraudulently obtained; penalty
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A person is guilty of criminally receiving goods and services fraudulently obtained when he receives money, goods, services, or anything else of value obtained in violation of subsection A or C of § 18.2-195 with the knowledge that the same were obtained in violation of subsectio…
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-198 Obtaining airline, railroad, steamship, etc., ticket at discount price
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A person who obtains at a discount price a ticket issued by an airline, railroad, steamship, or other transportation company from other than an apparent agent of such company which was acquired in violation of subsection A or C of § 18.2-195 without reasonable inquiry to ascertai…
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-198.1 Venue
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Notwithstanding the provisions of § 19.2-244, a prosecution for a violation of this article may be had in any county or city in which (i) any act in furtherance of the crime was committed; (ii) an issuer or acquirer, or an agent of either, or a gift card issuer or gift card holde…
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-199 Penalties for violation of article

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Persons violating any provision of this article for which no other specific punishment is provided for shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony.

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-200 Failure to perform promise to deliver crop, etc., in return for advances

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If any person obtain from another an advance of money, merchandise or other thing, upon a promise in writing that he will send or deliver to such other person his crop or other property, and fraudulently fail or refuse to perform such promise, and also fail to make good such adva…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-200.1 Failure to perform promise for construction, etc., in return for advances

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If any person obtain from another an advance of money, merchandise or other thing, of value, with fraudulent intent, upon a promise to perform construction, removal, repair or improvement of any building or structure permanently annexed to real property, or any other improvements…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-201 Advances secured by fraudulent promise to perform agricultural labor

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If any person enter into a contract of employment, oral or written, for the performance of personal service to be rendered within one year, in and about the cultivation of the soil, and, at any time during the pendency of such contract, thereby obtain from the landowner, or the p…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-204 False statement for the purpose of defrauding industrial sick benefit company

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Any agent, physician or other person who shall knowingly or willfully make any false or fraudulent statement or representation of any material fact: (1) In or with reference to any application for insurance in any industrial sick benefit company licensed, or which may be licensed…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-204.1 Fraudulent use of birth certificates, etc.; penalty

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A. Any person who obtains or possesses a fictitious birth certificate or the birth certificate of another for the purpose of establishing a false identity for himself is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Any person who manufactures, sells, or transfers a fictitious birth certifica…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-204.2 Manufacture, sale, etc., or possession of fictitious, facsimile or simulated official license or identification; penalty

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A. Except as provided in subsection D of § 18.2-204.1, it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, advertise for sale, sell or possess any fictitious, facsimile or simulated driver's license issued by any state, territory or possession of the United States, the District o…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-204.3 Transfers for the sole or primary purpose of obtaining a lower unemployment tax rate; penalty

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A. Any person who transfers or attempts to transfer any trade or business to another person, where the sole or primary purpose of the transfer is to obtain a lower unemployment tax rate, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. B. Any person who knowingly advises another person to tra…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-205 False pretense in obtaining registration of cattle and other animals and giving false pedigree

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Every person who by any false pretense shall obtain from any club, association, society or company for improving the breed of cattle, horses, sheep, swine or other domestic animals the registration of any animal in the herd register or other register of any such club, association…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-206 Procuring an animal, aircraft, vehicle or boat with intent to defraud

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If any person procure any such animal, aircraft, vehicle, boat or vessel mentioned in § 18.2-149 by fraud or by misrepresenting himself as some other person or with the intent to cheat or defraud such other person, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The failure to pay t…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-207 Making false entry, etc., in marriage register, etc

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If any clerk of a court, commissioner of the revenue, physician, surgeon, medical examiner or minister celebrating a marriage, or clerk or keeper of the records of any religious society, shall, in any book, register, record, certificate or copy which such person is by Title 20 (§…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-208 Making false statement, etc., for marriage record, etc

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If any person, upon whose information or statement any record or registration may lawfully be made under Title 20 (§ 20-13 et seq.), knowingly give any false information, or make any false statement to be used for the purpose of making any such record or registration, he shall, f…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-209 False publications

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Any person who knowingly and willfully states, delivers or transmits by any means whatever to any publisher, or employee of a publisher, of any newspaper, magazine, or other publication or to any owner, or employee of an owner, of any radio station, television station, news servi…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-209.1 Penalties for false certificate or failure to give bond

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A. If any clerk make a certificate as to any bond of a special commissioner appointed under Article 11 (§ 8.01-96 et seq.) of Chapter 3 of Title 8.01, knowing it to be false, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be removed from his office. B. I…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-209.2 Failure of clerk to give notice of appointment of special commissioner to collect purchase money or rent

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If any clerk fail to give notice as required by § 8.01-103 of a special commissioner, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 misdemeanor.

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-210 Stamping, etc., on newspapers, any word, etc., to cause belief it was done by publisher; circulating such newspapers

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No person, without first obtaining the consent of the publisher so to do, shall affix to, or place or insert in, or print, stamp or impress upon any newspaper or any part thereof, after the same shall have been issued for circulation by the publisher thereof, any word, figure, de…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-212 Calling or summoning emergency medical services vehicle or firefighting apparatus without just cause; maliciously activating fire alarms; venue

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A. Any person who without just cause therefor calls or summons, by telephone or otherwise, any emergency medical services vehicle or firefighting apparatus, or any person who maliciously activates a manual or automatic fire alarm in any building, regardless of whether an emergenc…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-212.1 Unlawful for person not blind or incapacitated to carry white, white tipped with red or metallic cane

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It is unlawful for any person, unless totally or partially blind or otherwise incapacitated, while on any public street or highway to carry in a raised or extended position a cane or walking stick which is metallic or white in color or white tipped with red. Any person violating …

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-213 Simulation of warrants, processes, writs and notices

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Any person who, for the purpose of collecting money, shall knowingly deliver, mail, send or otherwise use or cause to be used any paper or writing simulating or intended to simulate any warrant, process, writ, notice of execution lien or notice of motion for judgment shall be gui…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-213.1 Obtaining certification as small, women-owned, or minority-owned business by deception; penalty

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A. Except as otherwise provided by § 18.2-498.3, a person shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if, in the course of business, he: 1. Fraudulently obtains or retains certification as a small, women-owned, or minority-owned business; 2. Willfully makes a false statement knowing…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-213.2 Filing false lien or encumbrance against another

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Any person who maliciously files a lien or encumbrance in a public record against the real or personal property of another knowing that such lien or encumbrance is false is guilty of a Class 5 felony. The court in its conviction order or in a separate order, shall direct the cler…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-214 Changing or removing, etc., trademarks, identification marks, etc

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Any person, firm, association or corporation who or which intentionally removes, defaces, alters, changes, destroys or obliterates in any manner or way or who causes to be removed, defaced, altered, changed, destroyed or obliterated in any manner or way any trademark, distinguish…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-214.1 Penalties for failure to report removal or alteration of identification or serial number on business machines

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It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or corporation regularly engaged in the business of repairing, selling, renting or leasing of business machines to fail to report any business machine which such person, firm, association, or corporation knows has an altered…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-215 Removal or alteration of identification numbers on household electrical appliances; possession of such appliances

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No person, firm, association or corporation, either individually or in association with one or more other persons, firms, associations or corporations shall remove, change or alter the serial number or other identification number stamped upon, cut into or attached as a permanent …

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-216 Untrue, deceptive or misleading advertising, inducements, writings or documents

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A. Any person, firm, corporation or association who, with intent to sell or in anywise dispose of merchandise, securities, service or anything offered by such person, firm, corporation or association, directly or indirectly, to the public for sale or distribution or with intent t…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-216.1 Unauthorized use of name or picture of any person; punishment

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A person, firm, or corporation that knowingly uses for advertising purposes, or for the purpose of trade, the name, portrait, or picture of any person resident in the Commonwealth, without having first obtained the written consent of such person, or if dead, of his surviving cons…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-217 Advertising merchandise, etc., for sale with intent not to sell at price or terms advertised; prima facie evidence of violation

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(a) Any person, firm, corporation or association who in any manner advertises or offers for sale to the public any merchandise, goods, commodity, service or thing with intent not to sell, or with intent not to sell at the price or upon the terms advertised or offered, shall be gu…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-218 Failure to indicate goods, etc., are "seconds," "irregulars," "secondhand," etc

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Any person, firm, corporation or association who in any manner knowingly advertises or offers for sale to the public any merchandise, goods, commodity or thing which is defective, blemished, secondhand or used, or which has been designated by the manufacturer thereof as "seconds,…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-220 Use of word "wholesale" or "wholesaler."

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Any person, firm, corporation or association who in any manner in any advertisement or offer for sale to the public of any merchandise, goods, commodity or thing uses the words "wholesale" or "wholesaler" to represent or describe the nature of its business shall be guilty of a Cl…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-221 Advertising new or used automobiles or trucks

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Any person, firm, corporation or association engaged in selling new or used automobiles or trucks to the public shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor unless, in any printed advertisement or printed offer in which a price is stated, the following is included: (a) the make, year…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-222 Misrepresentation as to source of merchandise; penalty

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No person, firm, corporation or association selling or offering for sale any article or merchandise, shall in any manner represent, contrary to fact, that the article was made for, or acquired directly or indirectly from, the United States government or its military or naval forc…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-223 "Going out of business" sales; permit required

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It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise, or conduct, a sale for the purpose of discontinuing a retail business, or to modify the word "sale" in any advertisement with the words "going out of business" or any other words which tend to insinuate that the retail business is…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-224 "Going out of business" sales; counties, cities and towns to issue permits; inspections; application for permit; inventory required; commingling of other goods prohibited; duration; additional permits; inclusion of permit number and dates in advertisements; fee

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Every county, town and city shall issue permits to retail merchants for special sales as required by § 18.2-223 upon the application of such merchant and shall inspect the advertisement and conducting of such sale to insure that it is being advertised and conducted in conformity …

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-225 Misrepresentations as to agricultural products

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Misrepresentation by advertising in the press or by radio or by television, or misrepresentation by letter, statement, mark representing grade, quality or condition, label or otherwise in handling, selling, offering or exposing for sale any agricultural commodities is hereby proh…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-226 Fraud and misrepresentation in sale of liquid fuels, lubricating oils and similar products

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It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation, to store, sell, expose for sale or offer for sale any liquid fuels, lubricating oils or other similar products, in any manner whatsoever, so as to deceive or tend to deceive the purchaser as to the nature, qua…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-227 Same; sale from pump indicating other brand

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It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to store, keep, expose for sale, offer for sale or sell, from any tank or container, or from any pump or other distributing device or equipment, any other liquid fuels, lubricating oils or other similar product…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-228 Same; imitating indicia of other brands

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It shall be unlawful, for any person, firm, association or corporation to disguise or camouflage his or their own equipment by imitating the design, symbol or trade name of the equipment under which recognized brands of liquid fuels, lubricating oils and similar products are gene…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-229 Same; false trade name or mixing brands

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It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to expose for sale, offer for sale or sell, under any trademark or trade name in general use, any liquid fuels, lubricating oils or other like products, except those manufactured or distributed by the manufactu…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-230 Same; assisting in violation of §§ 18.2-226 through 18.2-229

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It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to aid or assist any other person, firm, association or corporation in the violation of the provisions of §§ 18.2-226 through 18.2-229 by depositing or delivering into any tank, receptacle or other container an…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-231 Same; label required

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There shall be firmly attached to or painted at or near the point of outlet from which lubricating oil is drawn or poured out for sale or delivery a sign or label consisting of the word or words in letters not less than one inch in height comprising the brand or trade name of suc…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-232 Same; punishment for violation of §§ 18.2-226 through 18.2-231

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Any person, firm, association or corporation or any officer, agent or employee thereof who shall violate any provision of §§ 18.2-226 through 18.2-231, shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor; and a second or any subsequent offense shall be punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-233 Sale of goods marked "sterling" and "sterling silver."

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A person who makes or sells or offers to sell or dispose of or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of any article of merchandise marked, stamped or branded with the words "sterling" or "sterling silver," or encased or enclosed in any box, package, cover or wrappe…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-234 Sale of goods marked "coin" and "coin silver."

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A person who makes or sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article of merchandise marked, stamped or branded with words "coin" or "coin silver," or encased or enclosed in any box, package, cover, wrapper or other t…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-235 Regulating sale of merchandise made of gold

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Any person who marks or sells or offers to sell or dispose of or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of any article of merchandise made of gold of a less carat of fineness than is stamped or marked on it or of a less carat of fineness than is engraved, stamped or…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-237 Buying, etc., certain secondhand materials; intent; possession

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If any person buy or receive secondhand grate baskets, keys, bells and bell fixtures, gas fixtures, water fixtures, water pipes, gas pipes, or any part of such fixtures or pipes with intent to defraud, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. Possession of any such secondhand…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-238 Buying, etc., pig iron, etc., with intent to defraud; possession; evidence of intent

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If any person buy or receive pig iron or railroad, telephone, telegraph, coal mining, industrial, manufacturing or public utility iron, brass, copper, metal or any composition thereof with intent to defraud, he shall be guilty of a Class 6 felony. Possession of any pig iron or ra…

Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-239 Pyramid promotional schemes; misdemeanor; definitions; contracts void

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Every person who contrives, prepares, sets up, operates, advertises or promotes any pyramid promotional scheme shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. For the purposes of this section: (1) "Compensation" means the transfer of money or anything of value. "Compensation" does not …