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§ 47.1-29.1 Wrongful possession of software or hardware

Any person who knowingly obtains, conceals, damages, or destroys the certificate, disk, coding, card, program, software, or hardware enabling an electronic notary to affix an official electronic signature or seal, without authority, shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

History

This law was first created in 2007. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 269 and 590 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.

2007, cc. 269, 590.

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