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§ 19.2-152.16 False statement to law-enforcement officer, etc.; penalty

Any person who knowingly and willfully makes any materially false statement or representation to a law-enforcement officer or attorney for the Commonwealth who is in the course of conducting an investigation undertaken pursuant to this chapter is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

History

This law was first created in 2020. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 887 and 888 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

2020, cc. 887, 888.

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